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 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.
"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".
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Exhibition explores communities and significant sites
ROB KENNEDY reviews Sharing Stories Arts Exchange exhibition at the ANU School of Art & Design.
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Fresh flooding at Louvre in wake of ticket scam arrests
The Louvre museum in Paris is in the news once again, this time after a gallery was damaged by flooding.
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Tremendous turnout for new gallery opening
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.
The National Gallery of Australia’s 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial, After the Rain, is set to open on December 6, reports HELEN MUSA.
Murrumbateman sculptor Stephen Harrison has won the $6000 Highly Commended [second] prize for Outdoor Sculpture from 76 entries at Sculpture in the Valley in Kangaroo Valley.
A new three-panel work commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery showing athlete Cathy Freeman lighting the Olympic cauldron is at the heart of the big summer exhibition titled Super Kaylene Whiskey.
"Cassandra Dove’s latest exhibition, called Behind the View, is inspired by landscape, in particular the landscape around Canberra and the surrounding region," writes reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
