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April 1, 2022Art heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world
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April 1, 2022Art heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world
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March 7, 2022Ken Whisson: A life made in art
The late Australian painter offered a profound example of how to forge a path as an artist
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December 9, 2021Helen Maudsley’s visual essays
The 94-year-old painter’s current exhibition reveals an interest in language and the mechanics of meaning
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October 1, 2021Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art
The story of John and Sunday Reed’s influence on Sidney Nolan and other live-in protégés
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August 25, 2021Bodies transformed: ‘A Biography of Daphne’ at ACCA
Centred on the myth of Daphne and Apollo, this group exhibition harnesses a vision of unchecked metamorphosis
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September 1, 2021A shock of renewal: ‘Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings’
The transcendent works of the modernist who regarded herself not an artist but a medium
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July 29, 2021Simultaneous persuasions: ‘Camille Henrot: Is Today Tomorrow’
Radical difference and radical proximity are hallmarks of the French-born artist’s NGV exhibition
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August 1, 2021Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum
Goya’s dark and difficult works exhibited at NGV remind us how little the world has moved on from past horrors
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February 1, 2021The paintbrush is a weapon: Vincent Namatjira
The Archibald Prize winner’s politics are less straightforward than the art world might like to think
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December 3, 2020Currents of joy: Stephen Bram and John Nixon
Overlapping exhibitions by the two abstract artists convey their shared radical modernism
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December 1, 2020Blue is the colour
The idiosyncratic work of Yolngu artist Dhambit Mununggurr
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February 1, 2020Stopped in the street: ‘Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines’
Early death meant the work of these renowned artists never fully emerged from ’80s New York subcultures
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November 1, 2019‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’
The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
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June 6, 2018‘The Field Revisited’ and ‘Robert Hunter’ at NGV Australia
Two exhibitions re-examine landmark Australian art
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January 25, 2018Katharina Grosse’s riot of colour
The German artist transforms Carriageworks