Power + Colour: Law and Country
Two key elements at work in Aboriginal contemporary art, the power of Aboriginal law, or Tjukurpa and the mesmerising array of colour used to depict country and culture, are showcased…
Departure and return of the prodigal painter
In 2011 the University of South Australia conferred an honorary degree on the South Australian School of Art’s greatest alumnus, Jeffrey Smart.
The pursuit of hope and meaning
Inspired Lives: Discovering Life in Imagination is an exhibition that shares the original voice of suicide survivors through a series of large-scale art installations.
Louise Bourgeois
What counts, our whole purpose, is to try to understand what we are about, to scrutinise ourselves … Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if…
Monumental Declaration
Despite its proximity to the central business district and many architectural treasures, city-fringe North Melbourne has been the awkward step-sister to the fashionable neighbouring suburbs of the inner north
Art for the people
The Toorak Village Art Affair is known as the ‘little sister’ of the very successful Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition which runs annually each May.
Apocalypse Then
An explosion of activity rips through a crowd of men and women. Their bodies fall and recoil in the face of an approaching storm, their features contort with fright and…
Are we human or are we android?
Today, robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro thinks he is human. And he is pretty sure you think you are human as well. But before we get complacent, he wants us to…
Collingwood Arts Precinct
One of Melbourne’s most reputable gallery precincts, containing commercial galleries representing some of Australia’s leading award-winning artists and exciting emerging talent, the Collingwood Art Precinct, will once again host an…
Art + Sport – Basil Sellers Art Prize 2012
Watching the London Olympiad, flipping from event to event across multiple cable TV channels, I was pleased to stumble across the men’s discus throw.
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