Men at Ken’s Karate Klub, Kensington in 1977.
William Yang
Sydneyphiles remounts Yang’s 1977 exhibition, documenting mainstream Sydney and the illegal gay party scene.
How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?, 2022, Tomás Saraceno. Courtesy the artist with thanks to Arachnophilia, neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford Image Courtesy Studio Tomás Saraceno and MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
This new exhibition at Hobart’s Mona captures Tomás Saraceno’s collaborations with research institutes.
Installation view of T he Widows of Culloden collection, autumn winter 2006 - 07 in Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse on display at NGV International from 11 December 2022 - 16 April 2023. Headpieces by Michael Schmidt
Photo: Sean Fennessy
Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse at the National Gallery of Victoria is an important fashion exhibition that makes us consider how all the visual arts are inter-related.
Scotty So, Wearing a mask at the end of the Spanish flu, no. 1 2020 inkjet print 76.3 × 50.8 cm (image) 86.5 × 61.0 cm (sheet).
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2021 © Scotty So
The first Chinese object was acquired by the year-old gallery in 1862. A new exhibition looks at this history – and towards the future.
Carla Zampatti middriff top and pants, 1971.
Photograph: Warwick Lawson
Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum is one of the best-looking fashion exhibition designs Australia has seen.
Installation view: Nalini Malani: Gamepieces, featuring Gamepieces by Nalini Malani.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, photo: Saul Steed.
The senior artist works across genres, much of her art reading like a stream of consciousness thoughts about contemporary life.
Fred Williams Australia 1927-82, worked in England 1952-56. Elephant 1953 cont é crayon 25.2 x 31.8 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by the Art Foundation of Victoria by Mrs Lyn Williams, Founder Benefactor, 1988 © Estate of Fred Williams
Studying in London, the young artist examined the human figure, animals in the zoo and the rich cross-section of theatre life and of life on the streets.
Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH, installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Photograph: Andrew Curtis
WORD MADE FLESH at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is a comprehensive survey of this singular artist’s work.
Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022 (still).
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
Installation view,
Judy Watson & Helen.
Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends.
National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2022
Waanyi woman Judy Watson and second-generation Anglo immigrant Helen Johnson both use archival materials to explore Australia’s violent history.
Justene Williams, Australia b.1970. The Vertigoats 2021. Mixed media. Installed dimensions variable. Purchased 2021 with funds from the Contemporary Patrons through the QAGOMA Foundation.
Collection: QAGOMA. Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art is a celebration of women, people of colour and LGBTIQA+ artists.
Kate Harding, Carnarvon 2020 (detail). Exhibition view of D Harding with Kate Harding: Through a lens of visitation at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Photo: David James
Descendants of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, two renowned artists come together in this family exhibition.
Ethel Spowers, School is out, 1936, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976.
Their modernist interpretations of Australia in the interwar period have both a complexity and a simplicity.
Tyr Liang/Illuminate Adelaide
From the botanical gardens to the art gallery, Adelaide’s winter is awash with light.
Raemar, Blue, 1969, Tate: Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, partial purchase and partial gift of Doris J. Lockhart 2013.
© James Turrell. Photo: Chen Hao
From J.M.W. Turner to Yayoi Kusama, this exhibition explores 200 years of art about light.
Nakashima Harumi, born Ena City, Gifu prefecture, 1950, Struggling forms, c2005, Ena City, Gifu prefecture, porcelain, under and overglaze, 66.0 x 49.0 x 43.0 cm.
Collection of Raphy Star
Pure Form at the Art Gallery of South Australia brings together some of Japan’s most interesting post-war art.
Zan Wimberley/Ngununggula
Land Abounds, created for Ngununggula in the heart of NSW’s Southern Highlands questions the comfort of the Australian landscape tradition
Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881–1973.
Figures by the sea (Figures au bord de la mer) 12 January 193, oil on canvas 130.0 x 195.0 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris Donated in lieu of tax, 1979
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022 Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau
The Picasso Century at the National Gallery of Victoria is a remarkable exhibition that may change the way you will view Picasso.
Daniel Boyd, Sir No Beard, 2007. Oil on canvas 183.5 x 121.5 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift of Clinton Ng 2012, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 378.2012.
Image: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins © Daniel Boyd
Daniel Boyd’s solo exhibition Treasure Island, now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is a deeply political and personal interrogation of Australia’s colonial history.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still, 1980. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
© Cindy Sherman
Wearing edits life while Sherman imitates it, in these pieces in conversation at Melbourne’s PHOTO 2022.