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Ditched art duo drum up cash for Venice project

Ditched art duo drum up cash for Venice project

After Creative Australia rescinded their Biennale commission, Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino are fundraising for an independent artwork in Venice instead.

Uni art museum to reopen, address racist legacy

Uni art museum to reopen, address racist legacy

Uni art museum to reopen, address racist legacy

Uni art museum to reopen, address racist legacy

Melbourne University's Potter Museum of Art shut for six years. It's reopening with an Aboriginal art show that also looks at the institution's colonial past.

Mass letter urges arts minister to act over Venice snub

Mass letter urges arts minister to act over Venice snub

Mass letter urges arts minister to act over Venice snub

Mass letter urges arts minister to act over Venice snub

Protests against the dumping of Australia's art team for the Venice Biennale continue, with hundreds of artists and curators demanding government action.

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How a French artist inspired queens of Aussie fashion

How a French artist inspired queens of Aussie fashion

A show at the National Gallery of Australia explores how 1980s fashion darlings Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee were inspired by French artist Sonia Delaunay.

Video art gets the message across at Samstag show

Video art gets the message across at Samstag show

Communication and its various breakdowns is the topic of an exhibition at Adelaide's Samstag Museum.

Call for resignation of arts chief after fiery hearing

Call for resignation of arts chief after fiery hearing

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has called for Creative Australia's chief executive to resign, over the decision to ditch the Venice Biennale team.

Melting paint, robot vacuums and a hearse at Art Fair

Melting paint, robot vacuums and a hearse at Art Fair

The Melbourne Art Fair features the latest work from some of Australia's best known artists - with art from a few hundred dollars to more that $300,000.

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Venice biennale winners 'appalled' at artist dumping

Venice biennale winners 'appalled' at artist dumping

Venice biennale winners 'appalled' at artist dumping

Venice biennale winners 'appalled' at artist dumping

Australia's winners of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale have added their voices to calls to reinstate the nation's 2026 artistic team.

Minister made phone call before Venice pick reversal

Minister made phone call before Venice pick reversal

Minister made phone call before Venice pick reversal

Minister made phone call before Venice pick reversal

The arts minister spoke to the chief of Creative Australia after questions were asked in parliament about the artist chosen to go to the Venice Biennale.

Flood of troubles continues for shuttered Art Museum

Flood of troubles continues for shuttered Art Museum

Flood of troubles continues for shuttered Art Museum

Flood of troubles continues for shuttered Art Museum

It's unknown when, or if, Brisbane's QUT Art Museum will reopen its doors after flood damage and a decision to nix its 2025 exhibition program.

Dumped a ute? It's been turned into sand art at Mona

Dumped a ute? It's been turned into sand art at Mona

Dumped a ute? It's been turned into sand art at Mona

Dumped a ute? It's been turned into sand art at Mona

French artist Théo Mercier's massive installation MIRRORSCAPE is a whole landscape of unwanted junk, found on his travels in Tasmania and sculpted in sand.

Creative Australia ditches Venice Biennale artistic duo

Creative Australia ditches Venice Biennale artistic duo

Creative Australia ditches Venice Biennale artistic duo

Creative Australia ditches Venice Biennale artistic duo

Arts funding body Creative Australia has dumped the artist and curator it selected to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale.

Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

A new commissioning program features Indigenous artists including Mervyn Street, who led a class action to recover stolen wages in Western Australia.

Artist's alarm at sculptures credited to French creator

Artist's alarm at sculptures credited to French creator

Artist's alarm at sculptures credited to French creator

Artist's alarm at sculptures credited to French creator

When artist Anya Pesce parted ways with a gallery, sculptures similar to hers credited to a French artist, became available from the same outlet.

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Time machine to Pompeii: blockbuster opens in Australia

History-buffs can walk the streets of ancient Pompeii in a multi-sensory summer blockbuster at the National Museum of Australia.

Step into an infinite polka dot universe at Kusama show

Yayoi Kusama offers an experience of infinity at her National Gallery of Victoria retrospective, which is the biggest ever show of her work in Australia.

Banksy's ultimate Firewall unveiled at street art show

A free exhibition from Australia's most extensive collection of street art features a room of Banksys, including the never-before-seen sculpture Firewall.

Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

A leading university art museum has cut its 2025 program, including a career survey by artist Jemima Wyman. She says she is devastated by the move.

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Artists dream big at milestone museum exhibition

Arts Project Australia's artists are making exciting, compelling contemporary art, says the curator of its first exhibition at a major gallery.

Intergenerational knowledge reimagined at Triennial

Artists or groups from 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region feature in QAGOMA's 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, opening on Saturday.

Staying independent is radical, top fashion label says

As artist Zaachariaha Fielding shows off his work with fashion label Romance Was Born, its designers wonder about the future of Australian runway fashion.

May the 4th brings galaxy-first Star Wars LEGO show

A world-first Star Wars LEGO show is set to premiere in Melbourne - on May the 4th, of course.

Architect delivers a big home truth on Aussie housing

An architectural labyrinth has been installed at the National Gallery of Victoria - and its footprint is the size of the average newly-built Australian house.

Mammoth impressionist exhibition returning to Australia

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.

Australia's biggest art fair records $17.5m in sales

Sales at Sydney Contemporary in 2024 have fallen short of the previous year, with $17.5 million spent on artworks.

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