visual art
Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at AGNSW offers a tonic for our times
Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents 200 artworks spanning 1500 years.
Primary Succession: Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler exhibition in Dandenong explores life after ecological rupture
Primary Succession offers visitors the chance to reflect on impermanence, memory and adaptation.
Richard Lewer wins 2026 Archibald Prize with portrait of Iluwanti Ken
Melbourne-based Lewer has been awarded the prestigious Archibald Prize for his portrait of senior artist and ngangkari (traditional healer) Iluwanti…
Why you should explore New Asian Art at the National Gallery of Australia
New Asian Art at the National Gallery of Australia fuses past and present, myth and technology and local and global…
Painted Up: This vibrant exhibition challenges colonial perceptions of Aboriginal art
Dean Biŋkin Tyson artwork moves through ancient practices and modern materials at Redland Art Gallery.
The Lester Prize is open for 2026 season entries
Entries are now open for the Lester Prize Main Awards, Australia's richest prize for portraiture – and everyone's invited.
Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial review: grunge rupture and eloquent overlays
Yield Strength: Adelaide Biennial is a bold exhibition that challenges the institution, expectation and materiality in our times.
It’s time: why you should enter the 2026 Environmental Art & Design Prize
Winning the prestigious Environmental Art & Design Prize marked a pivotal moment for radical artist/architect duo, the artHITects.
MOTHER: NGV to premiere exhibition on motherhood
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection will run, free, from 27 March to 12 July 2026.
Archie Moore: kith and kin at GOMA offers solemn testimony
With a Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale, kith and kin brings home an inalienable truth of the suffering upon…