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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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An icy blast of a novel about male voyeurism and art, capitalism, and much more
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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An icy blast of a novel about male voyeurism and art, capitalism, and much more

The book in the series was published the same year. This slim paperback was sold more than a million times by the time Berger passed away in 2017. It is sometimes called…

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A painter of Australia’s great elegance, wry observations
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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A painter of Australia’s great elegance, wry observations

There are two things that I remember listening to as a child. First, I remember the wonder of the golden mean – the magic geometric ratio that rules Western art. Second, we…

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Ladybird’s spoof guide for adults is just depressing
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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Ladybird’s spoof guide for adults is just depressing

I am a huge fan of Ladybird Books, and I also love a good joke. The four review copies provided by LadybirdHQ were a great opportunity for me to enjoy…

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Love & Revolution reminds us how Anglo-American we are in our view of modern art
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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Love & Revolution reminds us how Anglo-American we are in our view of modern art

This exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia is more than just a Frida-Kahlo-love-in. These are just two of the many fabulous contemporary artists whose work isn’tisn’t well-known outside…

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How sacred Asian images incorporate divine presence to make them ‘alive
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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How sacred Asian images incorporate divine presence to make them ‘alive

As I walked into my favorite restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was greeted immediately by a golden Buddha statue, its sparkling gem eyes looking at me as I made my…

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TS Eliot led the way in the digital publishing revolution
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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TS Eliot led the way in the digital publishing revolution

The home screen, with a simple interface that explains all the features and the icons attached to them – pen for ‘Notes’, volume button for ‘Readings’ Screenshot taken by author…

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why Just Stop Oil targeted Van Gogh Sunflowers
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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why Just Stop Oil targeted Van Gogh Sunflowers

It may be poetic timing that I have just begun a project, which is an oral history of the environmental movements in the UK. The goal is to increase public awareness…

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Standup comedy and cultural legitimacy
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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Standup comedy and cultural legitimacy

Standup is different from other forms of art. It’s more like a conversation with the audience, but the majority of their response comes in the form of laughter and other…

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Nothing is off-limits with his infectious energy and wry humor
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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Nothing is off-limits with his infectious energy and wry humor

The paintings displayed echo Namatjira’s mantra that his paintbrush was his weapon and art had the power to transform the world. Vincent Namatjira is a Western Aranda person in the…

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Western Australian Artists see things differently
  • Cynthia G. GrubbCynthia G. Grubb
  • January 4, 2024
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Western Australian Artists see things differently

The myopia of the past continues to distort Australian art history. According to Edmund Capon’s ABC series The Art of Australia and Hannah Gadsby’s OZ interpretation of contemporary art practices in Melbourne…

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Charles Blackman’s poetic vision contained an undertone of dread

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Japanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an education

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That doesn’t mean we should share it without credit

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  • March 6, 2024
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A Black British artist you need know about

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  • March 6, 2024
A Black British artist you need  know about
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How the right lighting could save the Mona Lisa

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  • March 6, 2024
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Wynne Prize traces Australia’ shifting relationship to our landscape

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  • March 6, 2024
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