Lucy takes the reins in a big year for M16
There was quite a buzz on Thursday evening at M16 Artspace in Griffith when its board chair, Kishwar Rahman, introduced the organisation’s new general manager, Lucy Chetcuti.
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The ANU’s Glass team has been busy hand-crafting the 36 intricate glass sculptures that will be Australian of the Year Awards, made every year at the ANU Glass Workshop.
For its twin summer exhibitions, the National Gallery of Australia has chosen to look at two female artists partly lost in the shadows of art history, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports from 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, in Brisbane, one of the biggest and most important cultural summits of our region.
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Artist’s alarm at sculptures credited to French creator
When artist Anya Pesce parted ways with a gallery, she claims sculptures similar to hers credited to a French artist, became available from the same outlet.
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Falsone leaves CCAS for troubled Bega gallery
Janice Falsone is leaving the directorship of Canberra Contemporary Art Space after nearly three years at the helm to take up the top job at the South East Centre for Contemporary Art in Bega.
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Gallery salutes two ‘extraordinary’ women artists
“It’s an extraordinary way to end the year,” National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich told media on Thursday morning as he unveiled the dual exhibitions, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar.
The Emerging Artists Support Scheme is now quite an institution at the ANU School of Art & Design, and its latest recipients were announced at the school’s Graduating Exhibition 2024.
Entrepreneur Justin Sun has eaten a banana in Hong Kong after paying $US6.2 million for a piece of conceptual art featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall.
Visual art reviewer SOPHIA HALLOWAY takes a look at Speculative Materialism: Making for the Future, at Craft and Design Canberra, until December 14.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Afterimages of Familiar Tales by Adelaide artist Jessica Murtagh.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews the 2024 Objects in Motion exhibition at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Making a Creative Life, an exhibition of work by Hiroe and Cornel Swen that acknowledges both these creative artists and offers an affectionate tribute to their long productive partnership.
A humanoid robot has become the first to have its artwork sold by a major auction house, with a portrait of Alan Turing going for more than $A1.6 million.
The prime minister strikes an optimistic tone in a speech to the business crowd, saying the worst economic storms are over and the future may be much brighter.
In what he calls “a myriad of glittering reflections”, newly-announced director of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Tony Oates, has curated an exhibition of work by two of our late artists who have put the visual art in Canberra on the map.
Lindy Lee's $14 million sculpture Ouroboros has been attracting onlookers and is setting tongues wagging outside the National Gallery of Australia.
The first Australian retrospective dedicated to the influential surrealist René Magritte opens at the Art Gallery of NSW.
After an initial run was derailed by covid lockdowns, one of the biggest ever French impressionist exhibitions to visit Australia is set to return to Melbourne.
