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Art Gallery South Australia Radical Textiles: installation view of a visual art exhibition showing largescale textile mural works.
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Radical Textiles blockbuster poses hard questions around supposedly ‘soft’ medium

The Art Gallery of South Australia’s blockbuster exhibition doesn’t hold back in showcasing artists who have used textiles to proudly,…

The portrait, among two other works of Gina Rinehart, are reproduced in Vincent Namatjira's monograph. Image: Supplied, courtesy Thames & Hudson.
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Gina Rinehart pressures NGA to remove portrait by Vincent Namatjira – now the whole net is searching for it

The work was previously shown in 'Vincent Namatjira: Australia in colour' at AGSA, with the current exhibition set to run…

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Exhibition review: Adelaide Biennial: Inner Sanctum, AGSA

Forcing a rethink of how we view exhibitions, José Da Silva's Adelaide Biennial plays off our 'Inner Sanctum'.

Tarnanthi. Image is gallery space full of colourful Namatjira paintings and a full-size sculpture of a First Peoples bearded man in a white cowboy hat.
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Exhibition review: Vincent Namatjira: Australia in Colour, Art Gallery of South Australia

Namatjira's paintings examine the politics of history, power and leadership from a contemporary Aboriginal perspective.

Two self-portrait paintings by Frida Kahlo, presented side by side
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Why does Frida Kahlo’s fame outshine other women artists?

Audiences are currently in the grip of ‘Frida fever’ thanks to a blockbuster show at AGSA. But why does this…

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Fraternising with Frida and her friends

Mexican Modernism is more than Frida & Diego, and so AGSA offers a timely rethink of how governments celebrate Indigenous…

video still of Aboriginal art as flying superhero
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Universal topics push biennale exhibitions on the road

In a climate for greater accountability and inclusion, biennales take to the road post event.

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Gaze and gesture: the power of moving portraits

An Adelaide-exclusive exhibition of Robert Wilson’s video portraits explores the movement that lies in stillness.