Pioneers of Japanese pop rock Shonen Knife, Los Angeles-based electro-R&B musician Nite Jewel and multi-platinum Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke will headline the spring season of NGV Friday Nights.
Madarrpa artist Nonggirrnga Marawili is the daughter of the great pre-contact warrior and accomplished artist Mundukul, who did not live long enough to witness an era when Yolngu women were…
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Donald Laycock has lived a life as an Australian abstract painter. He is duly recognised as a major ‘art historical’ figure in twentieth-century Australian modern
Lei it on, a collection of contemporary lei and body adornment made by communities in the Torres Strait Islands will be on display at Cairns Art Gallery (CAG), opening 24…
An 11m long pool will be transported to the National Gallery of Victoria for The Pool, an exhibition that celebrates and explores one of Australia’s greatest cultural symbo
High-rise buildings, fast trains and engineering feats such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge jostled against the Great Depression, conservatism and a looming Second World War during the 1930s, one of…
Borrowing its title from a 1990 album by the Australian band Died Pretty, Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s explores a decade in contemporary art and culture.
Buddhism is the oldest of all the major religions practised around the world in the twenty-first century.
From grunge to techno, identity politics to cyborg culture, Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s will explore the cultural phenomena of a decade through the lens of art…
Yhonnie Scarce’s work Blood on the wattle memorialises a distressing massacre of Aboriginal people at Elliston in 184
Birmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha Kaiadilt born 1942 Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Gabori Kaiadilt born c.
Brook Andrew: The Right to Offend is Sacred will bring together more than 100 works by an Australian artist well known for reinterpreting colonial and modern history and offering alternative…
From iconic chair design to high density apartment architecture, the inaugural Melbourne Design Week will explore the value of good design and showcase local and international innovators in a city-wide…
In 1981 the National Gallery of Victoria staged Aboriginal Australia, a major exhibition of 328 works that did not include a single exhibit by a named woman artist.