Day: November 13, 2023

In a culture dominated by the looked-at (and especially the looked-at-on-a-tiny-screen), this represents something of a coup for the often neglected art of the heard. If you think that combining...

These paintings, on display in Los Angeles, revealed a life and an art that was different. Her spiritualism involvement had radicalised her work to the point that she could only be called one of the...

The survey was part of a research project funded by the Australian Research Council. It was administered to a nationally representative sample of 1,202 Australians in the first half of 2015. This...

This was the highest price paid for an American artwork at the time. Owning this abstract expressionist painting, Mollison and his political supporters said, would put Australia on the...

For his opening night action, Parr had imagined "draining the body of blood." On the night, a sufficient quantity of blood was extracted to enable a generous amount of material for painting, also...

Portuguese colonists first settled on the Southeast Asian island in 1515. In November 1975, the country gained its independence by the Revolutionary Front of an Independent East Timor. The...

Derek Huggins, a disgruntled detective inspector with Rhodesia's British South Africa Police, quit his job in 1975 and decided to open an art gallery. Gallery Delta is an important institution for...

Vasily Kandinsky was the pioneer of abstract art. His art and his theories profoundly influenced the School of Paris Abst,ract Expressionists in the United States, and Australian expressionist...

This year, Mike Parr will turn 70. Mike Parr is an Australian artist whose career has been devoted to ideas such as endurance, duration, formalism, and de-representation. He has performed works that...

The first Festival of Australian Aboriginal Cinema will feature films that have won awards at Cannes but may be unfamiliar to the audiences of one of the world capitals of film culture. This is the...