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Lynette Wallworth’s artworks resonate with recent findings in neuroscience, Duality of Light (2009). Photograph by Grant Hancock courtesy Samstag Museum of Art. Lynette Wallworth

Encounters with neuroscience: Lynette Wallworth’s Duality of Light

Christine Judith Nicholls, Flinders University

Neuroscientific knowledge of how the brain processes the separate attributes of visual images has expanded exponentially in recent years. The mesmeric appeal of the artworks created by the Australian new…
Gumuk Gumana, Dhalwangu freshwater at Gängan 1947 (lumber crayon and graphite on butchers paper, 114 x 74 cm). Berndt Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth. © the artist’s estate. AGNSW

Review: Yirrkala Drawings bring luminous revelations

Brenda Croft, UNSW Sydney

This exhibition is not just about art, it is about us: the land, the sea, our ancestors. Those words were spoken by Waka Munungurr, ceremonial leader and senior custodian, Djapu clan, at a preview viewing…
Garry Shead’s portrait of Martin Sharp shows the artist as he lived, orchestrating a magic theatre of people and objects. Felicity Jenkins/EPA

Remembering the artist Martin Sharp – in collage

Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW Sydney

The tributes have been flowing in from friends and art critics for Martin Sharp, who died this week aged 71. The common thread linking all the tributes, all the memories, is that the artist was never alone…
Crowds flock to the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania, as much for its unique architectural spaces as its exhibitions. Sam Granleese

Inside out: museum architecture rivals exhibitions for pulling power

Gay McDonald, UNSW Sydney dan Gary Sangster, UNSW Sydney

Only a quarter of a century ago, art museums in Australia were generally thought of as stately enterprises authoritatively disseminating knowledge of high culture to respectful devotees. That was reflected…
The Museum of Old and New Art isn’t the be-all and end-all. Brett Boardman/AAP

Hail MONA! But what about the rest of Tasmanian art?

Lucy Hawthorne, University of Tasmania

Another article about Hobart popped up in my Facebook feed recently. Writing about MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), the author used the all-too-familiar phrase: “Tasmania’s cultural renaissance.” “The…
Typefaces impose mood, emotion, attitude, formality and informality. arnoKath

Beyond words: how fonts make us feel

Louise McWhinnie, University of Technology Sydney

Typography is all around us. Fonts are on every document and website we read but also within the ephemera of our lives: on the toothpaste we use, newspapers we read, bus tickets we swipe and the streets…
Does the art critic speak for the broader public, for the artist or the connoisseur? http://www.flickr.com/photos/uber-tuber

The critical friend: for whom does the art critic speak?

Oliver Watts, University of Sydney

The contemporary art critic cannot say with certainty whether something is good or bad. What good criticism does today is to help the public “see” the artwork. It does not explain and close down meaning…

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