Hotel accommodates Crisp’s big watercolours
East Hotel in Kingston is showing a series of striking works by former Canberra visual artist and educator Lee Crisp.
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It’s time for Canberra’s Italians and those who wish they were to kick up their heels as the Viva Italia in Canberra Festival returns with an expanded program, inviting locals and visitors to immerse themselves in Italian heritage.
Banksy's mystique is taking a hit after a media report about his real name, reports LAURIE KELLMAN in London.
BARRINA SOUTH reviews after/image, an exhibition by artist Brenda L Croft.
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Innovative Canberra textile artist dies at 76
Central to Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser's artistic practice was the Japanese textile tradition of shibori, a complex form of resist dyeing. Arts editor HELEN MUSA pays tribute to this innovative artist...
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In art, Musa lets his concerns do the talking
"In all the works there’s a sense of survival going on and the ever-present questions, who can help us? How can we help ourselves?" ROB KENNEDY reviews The Hurt Business, an exhibition of lithographs and woodcuts by Omar Musa.
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Past works and the promise of new beginnings
"In Regeneration Glyphs, the artist brings together not only a selection of past works that provide a continuum of ideas and images, but also exciting recent work that promises new beginnings," writes reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
LEN POWER previews The Hurt Business, an exhibition by Omar Musa of lithographs and woodcuts that "ricochets between dark humour and poetry".
ROB KENNEDY reviews Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design.
The Louvre museum in Paris is in the news once again, this time after a gallery was damaged by flooding.
In a tremendous turnout, Canberra's visual arts community was seen heaving a collective sigh of relief at the opening of the new Grainger Gallery in Fyshwick.
The winner of the $10,000 2026 Bald Archy Prize was announced at the Canberra Potters Gallery in Watson Arts Centre on Thursday night.
Arts editor – and Bald Archy pioneer – HELEN MUSA previews this year's Bald Archy exhibition, about to open at the Canberra Potter’s Gallery in Watson.
The side of a historic building in Yass has become the canvas for a large mural dedicated to the memory of local region artist Kim Nelson, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Artist Michael Winters, a kind of “wandering Greek” who surfaces in various parts of the globe with his exhibitions, has written about his latest Greek adventure on Leros.
In a recent show-and-tell, National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich took a select group of journalists on a preview tour of the gallery’s plans for 2026. Arts editor HELEN MUSA was there.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain.
An unusual charcoal portrait of the artist’s mother and uncle in their youth has won Surya Bajracharya the $10,000 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, it was announced at the M16 galleries in Griffith on Thursday.
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens that disappeared in the early 1600s has been sold for $A4.1 million at an auction.
