‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries

Histories personal and national inform Helen Johnson’s large-scale canvases

Exhibitions by Brent Harris and Karl Wiebke reinforce how abstract painting can both beguile and explore big questions

Five Australian and international artists engage with history, impermanence and decay

Ian Potter Museum for Art’s ‘Vertigo Sea’ and ‘I was born in Indonesia’ are very different answers to the same question

ACCA’s exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art was a long overdue success

The collected wisdom of Patrick Pound and Brook Andrew at NGV

What does it take to transform the National Gallery of Australia into the Palace of Versailles?

Lynette Wallworth’s ‘Collisions’ brings virtual reality to the Western Desert

Artist Jan Senbergs prepares for his NGV retrospective

The National Museum of Australia’s ‘Encounters’ and the politics of collection

The meteoric career of Kaiadilt painter Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda

Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart (until 13 April 2015)

Melbourne Now, the NGV’s ambitious exhibition of the city’s contemporary art and related disciplines, has been a varied undertaking. This is partly because contemporary art, unlike modern art before it, presents no unified front. Or, put …

The unlikely collaboration of Paddy Bedford and Tony Oliver