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Trending News: Charles Blackman’s poetic vision contained an undertone of dreadJapanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an educationThat doesn’t mean we should share it without creditA Black British artist you need know aboutHow the right lighting could save the Mona LisaWynne Prize traces Australia’ shifting relationship to our landscapeTopway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally GaboriUser Pat Larter, pioneering ‘femail’ artist who gave men the Playboy treatmentWhy removing Waterhouse’s Nymphs was a bad ideaTimes change but the art establishment rollsIntroducing ‘lucid-dream cinema’: movies to watch while you sleepHow eye disorders may have influenced the work of famous paintersAuld Lang Syne in Ballarat reviewing an old acquaintanceThe artist, philanthropist and friendAustralian art’s great circus: loving and loathing the ArchibaldThe art market is failing Australian artistsArt Gallery SA goes back to Impressionism’s colourful roots with masterpieces from Musee d’OrsayStrange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarchEco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we valueLife in the Roman Army exhibition delivers exciting finds but fails to go beyond stories of men and weapons of war enoughPortraits are a fine art, so let’s embrace the selfieLife in the Roman Army exhibition delivers exciting finds but fails to go beyond stories of men and weaponsJan Senbergs’ paintings are a brilliant shock to the sensesAustralians’ favourites show Aboriginal art can transcend social divisions and art boundariesModestly staged, impressively renderedHow could an Italian gallery sue over use of its public domain artIt’s Australia v England, in battle over Stubbs masterpiecesAt last, the arts Revolution — Archibald winners flag the end of white male dominanceNetflix probe into history’s biggest gallery heist is a rollicking story of lapses and lossThis 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock paintingPlanet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of natureThat final vowel’: reading Seamus Heaney’s last poemBeauty and audacity: Know My Name presents a new, female story of Australian artIn defence of bad taste: the art of Pat Larter and Lola RyanKenneth Clark – the last art historian in pursuit of beautyStreets of Papunya delivers an artistic renaissance worth celebratingNGV Triennial has a huge ‘wow’ facto Ben Quilty at the Saatchi GalleryTurner Prize bursaries could signal a turn toward a more cooperative artEnthralling, dystopian, sublime: NGV Triennial has a huge ‘wow’ factoThe National Gallery is erasing women from the history of artListen up: It’s not enough to look at artHilma Af Klint’s stunning abstract art opens our eyes to new perspectivesAsset or Overvalued Drip Painting Blue Poles National survey finds line for art appreciationWhistler’s MotherMike Parr Jackson Pollock The FemaleBuilding a gallery during wartime in ZimbabweHow art heals and galvanizes the youth in Timor LesteMike Parr is going to paint over his prints in the current exhibition… but whyMeet the woman who brings Aboriginal cinema ParisHow the painting got its nameModern Art from The Hermitage showcases the French gems of two great merchant collectorsA new study of artist Ian Fairweather considers how Chinese ideas influencedMandela My Life is a welcome tribute to a hero, but avoids difficult questionsJudging the Archibald: the rules of the gameEdgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath spongingAdelaide Biennial is titled Free/State. It explores freedomThe Dutch golden age comes to SydneyFashion shows but the runway will surviveNigel Milsom wins the Archibald, our ‘most fun’ festival of facesGlamour photography makes suburban stars of us allPopulist candy-floss or not, the Archibald Prize soldiersFeng shui for a vision of a world in harmonyPaying tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest creative cultural forcesKandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a precious gem of a show celebratingThe paintings of Tony TucksonPeter Wegner’s portrait of Guy Warren at 100 wins the 100th Archibald PrizeMasterpieces from Scotland is easily the greatest exhibition of old master works to visit Sydney100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watchingHow women’s Yolŋu bark paintings break with convention and embrace artists’Streeton – an optimistic celebration of Australia’s golden boy of artThere is no orthodoxyTony Costa Wins the 2024 Archibald PrizeIt’s not a joke that you can spot the fake at Dulwich Picture GallerySteve Hart was a young girl in 1947. Sidney NolanWhy John Byrne was one of Scotland’s greatest artistsHere’s a look at Black Ground, 1989, by Judy WatsonA charmingly playful portrait and a historical moment in landscape paintingCan you trust someone to tell you if your art is genuineCatherine the Great puts the great into the HermitageAn icy blast of a novel about male voyeurism and art, capitalism, and much moreA painter of Australia’s great elegance, wry observationsLadybird’s spoof guide for adults is just depressingLove & Revolution reminds us how Anglo-American we are in our view of modern artHow sacred Asian images incorporate divine presence to make them ‘aliveTS Eliot led the way in the digital publishing revolutionwhy Just Stop Oil targeted Van Gogh SunflowersStandup comedy and cultural legitimacyNothing is off-limits with his infectious energy and wry humorWestern Australian Artists see things differentlyThe 2023 Wynne Award finalists: Politics of LandscapeDollar Dave’ and the Reserve Bank: a tale of art, theft and human rightsDark Mofo and the creative power of a stormThe Australian Border Force is based on an agency that was createdThe world’s most expensive artwork is too sexually explicitI wanted to be a woman but not in the way that a world obsessed with powerHow reenactments and reenactments about the Endeavour’s voyage perpetuateState Libraries Need Our Support and Participation to SurviveMyuran’s artistic voice is raw and prematureWhat makes the Mona Lisa so special
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Fri. May 9th, 2025
Trending News: Charles Blackman’s poetic vision contained an undertone of dreadJapanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an educationThat doesn’t mean we should share it without creditA Black British artist you need know aboutHow the right lighting could save the Mona LisaWynne Prize traces Australia’ shifting relationship to our landscapeTopway by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally GaboriUser Pat Larter, pioneering ‘femail’ artist who gave men the Playboy treatmentWhy removing Waterhouse’s Nymphs was a bad ideaTimes change but the art establishment rollsIntroducing ‘lucid-dream cinema’: movies to watch while you sleepHow eye disorders may have influenced the work of famous paintersAuld Lang Syne in Ballarat reviewing an old acquaintanceThe artist, philanthropist and friendAustralian art’s great circus: loving and loathing the ArchibaldThe art market is failing Australian artistsArt Gallery SA goes back to Impressionism’s colourful roots with masterpieces from Musee d’OrsayStrange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarchEco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we valueLife in the Roman Army exhibition delivers exciting finds but fails to go beyond stories of men and weapons of war enoughPortraits are a fine art, so let’s embrace the selfieLife in the Roman Army exhibition delivers exciting finds but fails to go beyond stories of men and weaponsJan Senbergs’ paintings are a brilliant shock to the sensesAustralians’ favourites show Aboriginal art can transcend social divisions and art boundariesModestly staged, impressively renderedHow could an Italian gallery sue over use of its public domain artIt’s Australia v England, in battle over Stubbs masterpiecesAt last, the arts Revolution — Archibald winners flag the end of white male dominanceNetflix probe into history’s biggest gallery heist is a rollicking story of lapses and lossThis 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock paintingPlanet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of natureThat final vowel’: reading Seamus Heaney’s last poemBeauty and audacity: Know My Name presents a new, female story of Australian artIn defence of bad taste: the art of Pat Larter and Lola RyanKenneth Clark – the last art historian in pursuit of beautyStreets of Papunya delivers an artistic renaissance worth celebratingNGV Triennial has a huge ‘wow’ facto Ben Quilty at the Saatchi GalleryTurner Prize bursaries could signal a turn toward a more cooperative artEnthralling, dystopian, sublime: NGV Triennial has a huge ‘wow’ factoThe National Gallery is erasing women from the history of artListen up: It’s not enough to look at artHilma Af Klint’s stunning abstract art opens our eyes to new perspectivesAsset or Overvalued Drip Painting Blue Poles National survey finds line for art appreciationWhistler’s MotherMike Parr Jackson Pollock The FemaleBuilding a gallery during wartime in ZimbabweHow art heals and galvanizes the youth in Timor LesteMike Parr is going to paint over his prints in the current exhibition… but whyMeet the woman who brings Aboriginal cinema ParisHow the painting got its nameModern Art from The Hermitage showcases the French gems of two great merchant collectorsA new study of artist Ian Fairweather considers how Chinese ideas influencedMandela My Life is a welcome tribute to a hero, but avoids difficult questionsJudging the Archibald: the rules of the gameEdgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath spongingAdelaide Biennial is titled Free/State. It explores freedomThe Dutch golden age comes to SydneyFashion shows but the runway will surviveNigel Milsom wins the Archibald, our ‘most fun’ festival of facesGlamour photography makes suburban stars of us allPopulist candy-floss or not, the Archibald Prize soldiersFeng shui for a vision of a world in harmonyPaying tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest creative cultural forcesKandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a precious gem of a show celebratingThe paintings of Tony TucksonPeter Wegner’s portrait of Guy Warren at 100 wins the 100th Archibald PrizeMasterpieces from Scotland is easily the greatest exhibition of old master works to visit Sydney100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watchingHow women’s Yolŋu bark paintings break with convention and embrace artists’Streeton – an optimistic celebration of Australia’s golden boy of artThere is no orthodoxyTony Costa Wins the 2024 Archibald PrizeIt’s not a joke that you can spot the fake at Dulwich Picture GallerySteve Hart was a young girl in 1947. Sidney NolanWhy John Byrne was one of Scotland’s greatest artistsHere’s a look at Black Ground, 1989, by Judy WatsonA charmingly playful portrait and a historical moment in landscape paintingCan you trust someone to tell you if your art is genuineCatherine the Great puts the great into the HermitageAn icy blast of a novel about male voyeurism and art, capitalism, and much moreA painter of Australia’s great elegance, wry observationsLadybird’s spoof guide for adults is just depressingLove & Revolution reminds us how Anglo-American we are in our view of modern artHow sacred Asian images incorporate divine presence to make them ‘aliveTS Eliot led the way in the digital publishing revolutionwhy Just Stop Oil targeted Van Gogh SunflowersStandup comedy and cultural legitimacyNothing is off-limits with his infectious energy and wry humorWestern Australian Artists see things differentlyThe 2023 Wynne Award finalists: Politics of LandscapeDollar Dave’ and the Reserve Bank: a tale of art, theft and human rightsDark Mofo and the creative power of a stormThe Australian Border Force is based on an agency that was createdThe world’s most expensive artwork is too sexually explicitI wanted to be a woman but not in the way that a world obsessed with powerHow reenactments and reenactments about the Endeavour’s voyage perpetuateState Libraries Need Our Support and Participation to SurviveMyuran’s artistic voice is raw and prematureWhat makes the Mona Lisa so special
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do radical protests turn the public away from a cause
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  • December 8, 2023
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do radical protests turn the public away from a cause

Radical protests have been a subject of debate regarding their effectiveness in advancing causes and their impact on public perception. Understanding the nuanced effects of radical protests on public opinion…

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What museums must do to ensure art is protected
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  • December 8, 2023
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What museums must do to ensure art is protected

Preserving art within museums is crucial for maintaining cultural heritage and historical significance. Museums must employ various strategies and practices to ensure the protection and conservation of artworks, safeguarding them…

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Nothing is left to chance and every detail is carefully calculated
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  • December 8, 2023
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Nothing is left to chance and every detail is carefully calculated

In every facet of existence, precision stands as the cornerstone upon which mastery is built. From the grandeur of celestial mechanics to the minute intricacies of cellular biology, the universe…

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What does an ‘unforgettable, multi-sensory experience’ have to do with Vincent van Gogh
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  • December 8, 2023
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What does an ‘unforgettable, multi-sensory experience’ have to do with Vincent van Gogh

 Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch post-impressionist painter, is renowned for his emotionally charged artworks that captivate audiences worldwide. His vibrant, expressive paintings, characterized by bold colors and dynamic brushstrokes, evoke…

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Private collectors are saving Australian art, but they can’t do it on their own
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  • December 8, 2023
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Private collectors are saving Australian art, but they can’t do it on their own

Private collectors play a pivotal role in preserving and supporting Australian art, but their efforts cannot solely sustain the thriving art ecosystem. While their passion, resources, and commitment contribute significantly…

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Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition
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  • December 8, 2023
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Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition

In the world of art restoration, discoveries often lie beneath the surface, waiting to be unveiled. Such was the case with a seemingly innocuous 1789 painting, initially believed to be…

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Militant suffragettes: morally justified, or just terrorists
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  • December 8, 2023
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Militant suffragettes: morally justified, or just terrorists

The militant suffragette movement, particularly active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, raises complex questions about ethics, morality, and the tactics used in the pursuit of justice and…

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Ian North’s Antarctic artworks evoke the beauty and terror of our era
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  • December 8, 2023
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Ian North’s Antarctic artworks evoke the beauty and terror of our era

Ian North, a visionary artist whose creations transcend traditional boundaries, has managed to capture the duality of beauty and terror inherent in our era through his breathtaking Antarctic artworks. In…

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How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth
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  • December 8, 2023
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How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

Unveiling Hidden Gems: Rediscovering Potential Lost Works of William Hogarth William Hogarth, an eminent figure in 18th-century British art, left an indelible mark on the art world with his satirical…

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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
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  • December 8, 2023
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire

 From the ethereal, luminous brushstrokes of Botticelli to the impassioned, textured canvases of Van Gogh, art traverses epochs, reflecting not just aesthetic evolution but the shifting landscapes of human experience.…

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