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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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The Archibald finalists – and why Tony Albert deserves to win
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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The Archibald finalists – and why Tony Albert deserves to win

I’d be delighted to help you explore the Archibald finalists and make a case for Tony Albert deserving to win in 1000 words or fewer. The Archibald Prize is one…

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The firebrand Perth dealer neglected by a new art history
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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The firebrand Perth dealer neglected by a new art history

Title: Perth’s Overlooked Firebrand Dealer in Art History In the vibrant tapestry of art history, certain figures often fall into obscurity despite their significant contributions to the cultural landscape. Among…

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The line between art and music is becoming ever more blurred
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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The line between art and music is becoming ever more blurred

The blurring of boundaries between art and music is a phenomenon that has evolved over centuries, reflecting the dynamic interplay between creativity, expression, and the human experience. Art and music,…

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Anger and optimism: The National 2021 highlights care in Australian art
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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Anger and optimism: The National 2021 highlights care in Australian art

In the heart of Australian art, The National 2021 exhibition stood as a testament to the dichotomies embedded within the human experience—despair juxtaposed with hope, anger interwoven with optimism. Within…

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A Forest of Hooks and Nails is a joyous exhibition about the art of hanging art
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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A Forest of Hooks and Nails is a joyous exhibition about the art of hanging art

In the heart of the bustling city, an unassuming gallery stood tall, inviting art enthusiasts and novices alike to explore an extraordinary exhibition titled “A Forest of Hooks and Nails.”…

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Face-in-the-crowd biometrics: here’s looking secretly at you
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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Face-in-the-crowd biometrics: here’s looking secretly at you

Advancements in technology have sparked a revolution in the field of biometrics, particularly in facial recognition. As this technology becomes more ubiquitous, concerns regarding privacy and surveillance have intensified. The…

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Are you one of us or one of them?’ Margaret Olley, Ben Quilty and a portrait
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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Are you one of us or one of them?’ Margaret Olley, Ben Quilty and a portrait

The artistic realm often births collaborations that transcend mere creative exchanges, birthing genuine friendships that enrich both personal and professional lives. The enduring bond between renowned Australian artists Margaret Olley…

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Blue poles by Jackson Pollock
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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Blue poles by Jackson Pollock

“Blue Poles,” a groundbreaking painting by Jackson Pollock, stands as a quintessential piece within the realm of abstract expressionism. Created in 1952, this monumental artwork measures 212.1 x 488.9 cm…

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The belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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The belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome

The belated craze for blockbuster shows marks a significant shift in the entertainment landscape. Streaming platforms, traditional networks, and production houses have embraced the allure of creating gripping, high-budget series…

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Mbodied Knowledge is an energetic and inclusive celebration of contemporary
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • December 22, 2023
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Mbodied Knowledge is an energetic and inclusive celebration of contemporary

Queensland, a state in Australia, is a melting pot of diverse cultures, landscapes, and experiences. Within its vibrant artistic scene lies a rich tapestry of contemporary expressions that encapsulate the…

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How the right lighting could save the Mona Lisa

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