NewsMuseums
Sydney floods reignite Powerhouse museum controversy as Parramatta River bursts its banks
Waters "would not have come within four metres of the entrance" of the future site, president says
NewsNational Gallery of Victoria
That's my grandad! Descendant of sheep shearer depicted in one of Australia's best-loved paintings sees work for first time while it visits rural Victoria
To celebrate the 130th anniversary of Tom Roberts’ 1890 painting Shearing the Rams, the National Gallery of Victoria sends work to Wangaratta Art Gallery, close to where the painting was conceived
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Australian museum boom: as most institutions face cuts, National Gallery of Victoria’s massive expansion flies in the face of coronavirus
New NGV Contemporary building is the latest ambitious construction project planned in the country
NewsOpenings
Boola Bardip: Perth’s revamped Western Australian Museum opens with new name and focus on Aboriginal heritage
The museum worked with around 60 Aboriginal language groups across the vast state to bring their perspectives into every gallery
PreviewExhibitions
Say my name, say my name: huge exhibition aims to put Australian women artists on the map
The show at Canberra's National Gallery of Australia spans the past 120 years and includes works by Nora Heysen, Tracey Moffatt and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers
NewsArt schools
Sydney bucks trend for marginalisation of drawing at art schools with new National Centre for Drawing
Opening on 4 November, the centre, which is part of the city's National Art School, is modelled on the the Drawing Centre in New York and London’s Drawing Room
NewsArt market
How a £3m Soulages almost sank off the coast of Tasmania
The MV Merino had gone aground on its way to Hobart for an exhibition of Modern French art in 1953
NewsAustralia
‘Broken’ heritage laws: Australia launches investigation after 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art is obliterated
Parliamentary enquiry will examine how mining giant Rio Tinto obtained legal right to destroy ancient Juukan Gorge site
Newscoronavirus
Sydney arts centre goes into voluntary administration after cancelling six months of events due to Covid-19
Sydney Opera House may step in to take over Carriageworks, which hosts the art fair Sydney Contemporary and exhibitions
PreviewBiennials & festivals
Sydney Biennale puts climate emergency and Indigenous struggle front and centre
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
NewsAustralia
Officials turn down plans to transform Sydney's Cockatoo Island into an art-filled tourist attraction
Private consortium offered $80m to turn former industrial area into Australia’s answer to Naoshima art island in Japan
PreviewExhibitions
Revellers and rivals: Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat reunited for major show
First museum survey exploring both artists together to open at the National Gallery of Victoria
NewsAustralia
Can Australia support two new Aboriginal art museums?
Proposals for Alice Springs and Adelaide have political support but concerns have been raised over competing projects and lack of Indigenous involvement
NewsCommercial galleries
Australia's only gallery dedicated to female artists to open in Melbourne
Founder of Finkelstein Gallery aims to counter the low representation of women in the Australian art world
NewsArt market
Australia has underrated Sidney Nolan, expert says, as artist's widow's estate comes up for sale
Mark Fraser makes the remarks as a group of works by the Australian artist is about to be offered at Bonhams in Sydney with a combined estimate of AUS$1.3m-$1.8m
PreviewSydney Biennale
Indigenous and First Nation artists to take centre stage at next Biennale of Sydney
Artistic director Brook Andrew aims to counter the dominance of Northern American and European narratives
ReviewExhibitions
Ben Quilty: an artist on the frontline
As the Australian artist's major retrospective opens in Adelaide, we speak to him about his time as a war artist in Afghanistan and his campaign against the death penalty
PreviewBiennials & festivals
Queensland museum will receive major boost from ninth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Acquisitions include woven clothing mats from the Marshall Islands and reflections on the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror
NewsArt market
Bark painting comes out of the woodwork at Sydney Contemporary
Work by the indigenous artist John Mawurndjul sold for $140,000 at the fair, where organisers estimate AUD$21m of sales were made
NewsExhibitions
Tate's Ophelia heads down under for blockbuster Pre-Raphaelite show in Canberra
Australia deepen ties with the London museum as trove of masterpieces travels to the National Gallery of Australia for first time
NewsChina
Uranium glass chandeliers banned from Shanghai exhibition
Chinese authorities did not explain why Ken and Julia Yonetani’s four works will not be part of Powerlong Art Museum group show
NewsExhibitions
Australian artists and inmates collaborate to make videos about the reality of life behind bars
Works are on show as part of Dark Mofo, a festival organised by the Museum of Old and New Art just north of Hobart
NewsBiennials & festivals
Sydney biennial appoints its first indigenous Australian artistic director
Artist Brook Andrew’s work deals with notions of history, identity and race
NewsPhotography
Bill Henson unveils new works in Melbourne
Show will be first commercial viewing of controversial photographer’s latest works
PreviewExhibitions
The many faces of Australia’s colonial legacy unveiled across two shows
National Gallery of Victoria’s mega-shows range from art by convicts to contemporary indigenous work
NewsBiennials & festivals
Ai Weiwei makes triumphant return to Sydney to open biennial
Giant refugee lifeboat one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney
NewsBiennials & festivals
Top Australian donors pull funding from Venice Biennale
Funders are furious about plans to exclude them from selecting the artist to represent the country
News
Shepard Fairey talks street art in Sydney—and reveals which word he would have put on a Hillary poster
The US artist was in Australia to create his largest-ever mural, a 44-metre-tall message of “peace and harmony”
News
No costumes needed for Xavier Le Roy’s new work
Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney
NewsBiennials & festivals
Sydney Biennale takes on race issues with tent embassy
Richard Bell’s homage to the 1972 Aboriginal protest site will host speakers from black activist groups
NewsObituaries
Betty Churcher: educator and director of the National Gallery of Australia
“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”
ArchiveFocus
Following the warp and weft of time: Tapestries in all their glory at the Met
Tapestry is as alluring a medium to today’s artists as Renaissance ones
ArchiveForgeries
Australian forgeries to be destroyed
Fakes were purported to be by Charles Blackman and Robert Dickerson
ArchiveValencia
Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración director steps down
Follows censorship controversy
ArchiveWar & Conflict
Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan
The Australian artist’s three-week sojourn with troops will form basis of new work
ArchiveNews
Shaun Gladwell sets off for Afghanistan as Australia’s official war artist
He is creating video and photographic works to document the conflict
ArchiveAuthentication
Gallery raid sparks panic over supposed fakes of late artist d’Arcy Doyle
Artist’s widow in marathon authentication exercise