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Installation view, Mangala Bai Maravi. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Courtesy the Baiga Tribe. Artist Assistant: Amit Arjel-Sharma. Installation view, Citra Sasmita. Commissioned by UOB for Children Art Space MACAN Museum Jakarta, Indonesia 2020. Courtesy the artist and Yeo Workshop, Singapore. Photo by David James.

March 12, 2024

Sydney Biennale invites us to celebrate our collective resistance in dark times

Christiane Keys-Statham, Western Sydney University

The 24th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, titled Ten Thousand Suns, is an explosion of joy and creative energy across seven venues.

Al río/To the River (detail) © Zoe Leonard.

September 11, 2023

The persistence of nature, the movement of water, the rigidity of walls: photographer Zoe Leonard documents the US–Mexico border

Jane Simon, Macquarie University

For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting.

Fiona Hall ‘EXODUST’, 2021, burnt tree, rope, iron bell, LED lighting, eucalyptus sapling, birds’ nests, water-based oil. on burnt book, water-based oil on burnt fabric, installation dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins

March 30, 2021

Despair and hope; anger and optimism: The National 2021 highlights care in Australian art

Felicity Fenner, UNSW Sydney

This third, and possibly final, biennial shows artists are deeply embedded in the politics of today.

September 22, 2017

Is BHP really about to split from the Minerals Council’s hive mind?

Marc Hudson, University of Manchester

What happens when the gap between a company and its umbrella group gets too wide? We’re about to find out.

Log Dog fits well within Aleks Danko’s body of radical – but fun – art. Image courtesy of the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

August 4, 2015

My fellow Aus-tra-aliens: Aleks Danko at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art – review

Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW Sydney

‘Objects are to be punned into symbols. Words can be dissected and distorted to change or multiply their meanings.’ Welcome to Aleks Danko’s radical – and fun – body of work, on show at the VCA.

Close has pushed the limits of the humble print. Pace Gallery, New York © Museum of Contemporary Art, photo: Jess Maurer

December 10, 2014

Getting up close to the work of Chuck Close at Sydney’s MCA

Sasha Grishin, Australian National University

With more than 200 prints on display, Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration is one of the biggest printmaking exhibitions to be held in Australia. The whole top floor of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary…

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