Confronting but hopeful look at artists managing the climate crisis
Visual art reviewer SOPHIA HALLOWAY takes a look at Speculative Materialism: Making for the Future, at Craft and Design Canberra, until December 14.
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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.
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Robot makes history as humanoid’s art sells at auction
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.
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Albanese sees sun breaking through dark economic clouds
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.
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‘Glittering reflections’ of artists who put Canberra on the map
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.
Canberra artist Solomon Karmel-Shann is one of five artists awarded residencies at Shark Island, a creative arts hub in Kangaroo Valley, in the 26th annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
Canberra’s oldest art society, the Artists' Society of Canberra, launched its annual spring exhibition in fine style with about 400 artworks on display at the Fitters' Workshop in Kingston.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Que será, Serra, an exhibition by Peter Vandermark at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, until October 20.
In her first review for CityNews, SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Pop Songs in the Desert, at the Mixing Room Gallery, Fyshwick, until October 26.
It is a travesty that the late Australian painter John Olsen has not been awarded our highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia. This should happen posthumously, and soon, says ROSS FITZGERALD.
BRIAN ROPE reviews the Marsden Arts Group's exhibition titled Journeys.
The visual arts community is rejoicing in long-awaited news that curator Tony Oates has been appointed to head up the ANU Drill Hall Gallery and ANU Art Collection.
The 2024 Canberra Art Biennial, which involves installations by 61 artists, is now taking place around Lake Burley Griffin, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
At a gala cocktail event held in Aarwun Gallery, Gold Creek on Thursday, the winners in the 2024 National Contemporary Art Prize, formerly the National Capital Art Prize, were announced.
