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Books & arts
Utopia’s ghosts
Antonia Finnane
12 November 2024
A Chinese-Australian artist captures the legacies of twentieth-century communism
Books & arts
The impress of war
Gary Werskey
12 October 2024
How Paris’s “Terrible Year” shaped impressionist art
Books & arts
Revisiting John Berger
Jane Goodall
12 August 2024
The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends
Books & arts
Reframing Gauguin
Kate Fullagar
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
Books & arts
John Glover, born-again artist in Tasmania
Jim Davidson
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & arts
Face time
Stephen Mills
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & arts
Every story tells a picture
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & arts
A dictionary for the future
Michael Dillon
1 February 2023
The
Gija Dictionary
opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley
Essays & reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Books & arts
What the Romans have done for us
Stephen Mills
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Essays & reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
From the archive
Who does she think she is?
Brenda Niall
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & arts
Who are we?
Jane Goodall
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & arts
Become what you are!
Seumas Spark
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken
Dunera
story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
From the archive
An exact illusion of reality
Tim Colebatch
1 May 2021
In search of the artist behind the Art Gallery of South Australia’s widely praised exhibition
Books & arts
A style we could call our own?
Gary Werskey
12 April 2021
It’s time for a new conversation about Australian impressionism
Books & arts
Light and shade
Andrew Ford
9 February 2021
Music
| Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & arts
The art of advertising
Peter Spearritt
16 July 2020
Books
| An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
Books & arts
“It’s not hard to become a political cartoonist from China, because there are only five or six of us”
Rowan Callick
7 June 2019
Profile
| A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
From the archive
A woman interrupted
Drusilla Modjeska
3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
Recovered Lives
Another brilliant career
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Books & arts
Reconciliation without tears
Julie Rigg
2 March 2019
Cinema
| Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and
At Eternity’s Gate
reviewed
Essays & reportage
A love supreme
David Hayes
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & arts
What is civilisation anyway?
Janna Thompson
23 December 2018
Television
| The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & arts
Remembering the Dunera
Peter Mares
13 July 2018
Books
| A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Essays & reportage
Cooking the books
Bruce Buchan
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Books & arts
It’s hard to put a lid on the world
Klaus Neumann and Karina Horsti
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
Essays & reportage
“Now, where were we…?”
Andrew Dodd
19 January 2017
My unexpected lunch with James Fairfax, once heir to the media empire
Books & arts
Whose utopia?
Madeleine O’Dea
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes
International
Engineers of human souls
Linda Jaivin
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes
Linda Jaivin
. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
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