New $2 coin puts a croc in your pocket
A coloured $2 coin featuring a croc is part of the Royal Australian Mint and Australia Post’s launch on Wednesday of a new collection celebrating Australia’s native animals and Indigenous languages.
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Reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS takes a personal journey through Rosalie Gascoigne's retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia, finding familiar landscapes transformed into extraordinary art.
More than 270 artworks will feature in the Artists Society of Canberra's Spring Exhibition as the organisation looks ahead to its 100th birthday, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
From intimate sketches to bold explorations of identity, an exhibition spanning more than a century reveals the expressive power of figure drawing, reviews ROB KENNEDY.
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CAPO turns donated art into grants for artists
CAPO, the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation, is preparing to distribute more than $52,000 in grants and fellowship support to artists in 2026, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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‘Favourite’ art historian dies at 68
The visual arts community has been shocked and saddened by the death on October 14 of art historian, educator and former head of the ANU School of Art, Gordon Bull, after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.
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Arresting worlds of webs, digital and analog
"The major work of the exhibition is a massive six-metre wide and 1.5-metre deep screen print in 36 joined frames. Titled Spider Warrior, Girl Protector, Infinite Internet, it takes your breath away." writes reviewer DAVID WHITBREAD.
It was all glitz and glamour at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday morning when drag performer Courtney Act made a show-biz style entrance for the unveiling of her newly-commissioned portrait, created from thousands of found objects.
The Rosalie Gascoigne retrospective opens to the public at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday, with more than 80 significant works spanning the late artist’s career.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA visits Mudgee's flourishing Sculptures in the Garden festival and asks whether Queanbeyan or Bungendore could learn from its remarkable success.
The second Canberra Art Fair opened at EPIC on Friday night with art, stalls and music by Sydney singer-songwriter Monico, bringing together 107 artists working in a range of media, predominantly painting.
Multiskilled documentary filmmaker and 2018 Canberra CityNews Artist of the Year, Kim Beamish, has been turning his hand to painting.
"In many years of covering the arts in Canberra, I have rarely met anyone as impressive as the late sculptor, Rosalie Gascoigne." Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews an important new exhibition.
Art meets science and environmental conservation in NatureArt Lab's sprawling exhibition at M16 Artspace, where 117 works reveal the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"The founder and chief organiser of the Canberra Art Fair, artist Margaret Hadfield, may look as if she’s a one-woman band but this is far from the truth," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
An exhibition of the work of one of Australia's most famous painters, Sidney Nolan, explores the darker aspects of the nation's history, its curator says.
Old pianos find a fascinating second life in Martin Rowney’s imaginative and instantly likeable sculptures, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
Canberra artist and letter cutter Ian Marr has been selected to show his work at Sculptures in the Garden in Mudgee, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
After more than 70 years of drawing, painting and designing buildings, Queanbeyan architect and artist Trevor Gibson will stage his first exhibition at the age of 85, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
