Common thread: Chiharu Shiota’s installation art examines life’s big questions. As such, she’s not expecting any answers soon.

Calling artists“international” in our globalised art world has become a marketing cliché, but Chiharu […]

Buried alive: Performance artist Mike Parr begins 72-hour entombment

For a man about to be buried alive, Mike Parr made little fuss. To the […]

Australia Artist Is Buried Alive to Symbolize Historic Cover-Up

HOBART, Australia — The Australian performance artist Mike Parr walked through a cheering crowd on […]

Buried alive, under a road

When artist Kazimir Malevich died in 1935, his cremated remains were placed in a box […]

Jan Nelson: Black River Running

Jan Nelson’s ten paintings of life-size figures hang sparsely in the gallery. Stripes of […]

High Street (After Ruscha) ruminates on memory, community and culture

Daniel Crooks’ High Street (After Ruscha) is easily described yet by no means simple […]

‘Hard Feelings’ at the Honeymoon Suite

When The Honeymoon Suite opened in 2016, it was with Rose Coloured Glass, an […]

Candice Breitz: The Medium is the Message

For the acclaimed South African artist Candice Breitz, truth lives in the places where […]

Stieg with It

As he worked with curators to set the parameters for his new survey exhibition […]

Stieg Persson Polyphonic at The Ian Potter Museum of Art

This exhibition, currently showing at the Ian Potter Gallery, is testament to an artist […]

In the Galleries: Five Shows to See in May

Black River Running by Jan Nelson Jan Nelson grew up in the cultural tumult of […]

Perfect Illusion

“When people look at my work they think they’re so real, they’re portraits of […]

Questioning taste and privilege

Stieg Persson reflects on his changing approaches in this mid-career survey of his work. In […]

Art that’s on song

Oliver Beer nonchalantly leans into the corner of the art gallery and sings. Adjusting […]

Botanica: view art as nature intended

Brisbane City Council has produced a showcase of contemporary Australian art in Brisbane’s City Botanic […]

In The Financial Times, 24 March 2018: ‘Sydney harbours a treasury of art’

[Excerpt] The 21^st Sydney Biennale […] brings together 70 artists from 35 countries in […]

The NGV Triennial

A new exhibition series’ first instalment delivers a heady mix of populism and politics Right now […]

OUR ARTISTIC TEAM FOR VENICE 2019

The Australia Council is delighted to announce that Angelica Mesiti and Juliana Engberg have […]

Taking a bat to Marco Fusinato’s sound-struck installation

Contemporary artist and experimental“noise musician”, Marco Fusinato, has witnessed some scary audience reactions […]

Candice Breitz: Video storyteller

Bob Marley. Sarah Ezzat Mardini. Michael Jackson. José Maria João. Madonna. Mamy Maloba Langa […]

Come face to face with Leonard Cohen in ‘I’m Your Man’

Video artist Candice Breitz’s work is incredibly intimate. Walk into Melbourne’s Anna Schwartz gallery from […]

The National Gallery of Victoria, thinking ahead

Excerpt: The NGV Triennial, which opened at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday […]

Artists rename NGV Triennial works to protest gallery’s Wilson Security contract

As the National Gallery of Victoria unveiled its first Triennial of contemporary art to […]

Video artist Candice Breitz

On the eve of the NGV Triennial, artist Candice Breitz turned a work about refugees […]

Com­mon thread: Chi­haru Shiota’s instal­la­tion art exam­ines life’s big ques­tions. As such, she’s not expect­ing any answers soon.

Buried alive: Per­for­mance artist Mike Parr begins 72-hour entombment

Aus­tralia Artist Is Buried Alive to Sym­bol­ize His­toric Cover-Up

Buried alive, under a road

Jan Nel­son: Black Riv­er Running

High Street (After Ruscha) rumi­nates on mem­o­ry, com­mu­ni­ty and culture

‘Hard Feel­ings’ at the Hon­ey­moon Suite

Can­dice Bre­itz: The Medi­um is the Message

Stieg with It

Stieg Pers­son Poly­phon­ic at The Ian Pot­ter Muse­um of Art

In the Gal­leries: Five Shows to See in May

Per­fect Illusion

Ques­tion­ing taste and privilege