Art Show guest captures the bush from home
Jacqueline Williams Mark Redzic has travelled far and wide to capture the perfect scene for his landscape paintings. anywhere he had ever seen, he said.
Looking at nation's history through the eyes of a robot
ADAM FULTON MOVE aside, Wall-E. A robot with a camera for a head will soon roam the National Museum of Australia to enable online audiences to examine its exhibits from all angles.
Warhol stunt turns into 15 minutes of infamy
Gina McColl A marketing stunt by a hotel group involving a convicted forger provokes anger in the art world.
Agony art
Ugly scenes as vandals deface Zuma portrait
David Smith Painting of South African President with his genitals exposed, which has divided the nation, vandalised at Johannesburg gallery.
Creative chaos emerges from life's plans
ARCHITECTURE and town planning ought to be nothing if not planned. Sure enough, each project begins on a drawing board, with all the specs in neat files. But architecture and urban planning are also notoriously subject to change, extensions, modification, demolition and reinterpretation, all of which seem to deride the original plan.
Lawmakers pressured to protect global art exchanges
Doreen Carvajal THE lending and borrowing of famous artworks is the essence of cultural exchange between museums in the United States and abroad. So routine is the practice, and so universally valued, that the US government has protected it with a law that shields a lent work from being seized by anyone with a claim to legal ownership, while the art is on display in America.
Feeling exposed? President demands removal of painting
David Smith, Johannesburg Jacob Zuma is suing over a controversial portrait.
Reviewer
The Exchange
Cameron Woodhead THE biennial Next Wave Festival celebrates new, boundary-pushing work from younger artists. The problem it faces is one of curatorship: how to guide audiences so they get the most from a program packed with experimental offerings - some unsuited to traditional venues, many fleeting and ephemeral.
The art of confrontation
ANDREW TAYLOR An expat Australian artist puts a medical tragedy front and centre.
Watch this space
Patricia Anderson Eugene von Guerard's works depict with supreme detail the painterly landscapes of Australia.
Search for stolen masterpiece ends
ANDREW TAYLOR Police have been unable to find answers to the whereabouts of a Dutch masterpiece stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW.
A clash of symbols
John McDonald Australians experimenting with a Belle Epoque trend couldn't keep a straight face.
Fuzzy logic makes perfect sense
Megan Johnston One of the world's oldest textiles is ripe for reinvention.
Gallery's French blockbuster
Ron Cerabona The National Gallery of Australia announced today its summer blockbuster exhibition will be Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge to lead into the centenary of Canberra. The first exhibition devoted to the French artist's works in Australia will be a Canberra-only event and has been put together during the past three and a half years by the gallery's senior curator, international art, Jane Kinsman.
Archibald prize
Self portrait wins Archibald People's Choice award
ADAM FULTON Jenny Sages’s moving self-portrait After Jack, painted after the death of her husband, wins the audience award at the Archibald Prize.
Multi-skilled grant recipients embrace digital age
ADAM FULTON ROBOTIC arts, a 360-degree cinema that responds to viewers, art for the blind and deaf, and a ''quadracopter'' that films from the air are among the projects that have received $860,000 from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Grants to Victorian artists with sights set on digital age
Adam Fulton Arts fellowships come with calls for greater support for contemporary arts.
Oriental embassy takes tongue-in-cheek approach to cultural stereotyping
Kylie Northover ''We are the epitome of the future race,'' says Nathan Beard, one of the Eurasian ambassadors of The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Gorilla warfare as women activists don the mask for art's sake
Kylie Northover They're among the world's most famous activists, yet their identities have remained a secret for more than 25 years.
More funds, more diversity, says Australia Council review
Jacqueline Maley, Adam Fulton THE Australia Council needs $21 million more in funding and should overhaul its grants application process to welcome emerging art forms, reversing the perceived prejudice towards big arts organisations such as theatres and opera companies.
Banksy blow
Workers didn't give a rat's
Vince Chadwick His art now fetches millions, but another of Melbourne's dwindling stock of public works by street artist Banksy was drilled into oblivion this afternoon by unsuspecting construction workers in Prahran.
In a secular age, the big public galleries could do more to help people make sense of their lives
Peter Hodge Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria is a hugely important, successful and popular cultural institution.
Watch this space
Patricia Anderson An Australian artist searches beyond the outback for a slice of rustic inspiration.
Tasmania is the arts end of Australia
ANDREW TAYLOR IT HAS no world-famous Opera House, let alone an opera company. It misses out on most touring music acts and exhibitions.
Interview: Jeff Kinney
Linda Morris "It feels like I'm living another life. I'm playing at it, that it's not my real identity," says Jeff Kinney.
In the moment
John McDonald Time itself never stands still, but a piece at the latest MCA exhibition has the power to stop people in their tracks.
My life as a hog
When artist Tony Edwards created Captain Goodvibes, he found a kind of fame thanks to a surfing pig.
A celebration of culture
Photography, pain and politics feature heavily in the richly diverse National Indigenous Art Triennial which opened at the National Gallery yesterday, Claire Low writes
Napoleon conquers Melbourne (again)
Raymond Gill From a map marked "Terre Napoleon" claiming Victoria as French territory to a country residence outside Paris that was a show-place for Australian exotica, Napoleon Bonaparte was a great admirer and preserver of our heritage. Now this rarely noted collection of indigenous Australian and local flora and fauna by French explorers is winging its way to Melbourne to tell an untold story of the emperor's fascination with the new world Down Under.
Rags to riches for some fashion bloggers
JANICE BREEN BURNS The best of the growing horde of fashion bloggers are turning their comments into cash.
Gallery's French blockbuster
The Moulin Rouge will star at the NGA's big summer exhibition.
A celebration of culture
The National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery.
Love of land shines through
A wonderful exhibition now in its second year of touring Australia.
Flaws undermine impact
Bernardoff's narratives can be literary and heavy-handed
Exhibition favourites
When the art arrived, some amazing stories were revealed.
Frozen in the moment
Masahiro Asaka is acclaimed for his glass-making innovation.
Renaissance on show
The new exhibition brings works full of classical harmony.
A new tower rises
When glass panels started falling, they decided to smash the rest.
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