Essays & reportage
18 December 2024
Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons
Books & arts
12 November 2024
A Chinese-Australian artist captures the legacies of twentieth-century communism
Books & arts
12 October 2024
How Paris’s “Terrible Year” shaped impressionist art
Books & arts
12 August 2024
The influential writer and critic seen through the eyes of two friends
Books & arts
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
Books & arts
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & arts
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & arts
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & arts
1 February 2023
The Gija Dictionary opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley
Essays & reportage
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Books & arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Essays & reportage
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
From the archive
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & arts
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
From the archive
1 May 2021
In search of the artist behind the Art Gallery of South Australia’s widely praised exhibition
Books & arts
12 April 2021
It’s time for a new conversation about Australian impressionism
Books & arts
9 February 2021
Music | Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & arts
16 July 2020
Books | An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Profile | A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
From the archive
3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Books & arts
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
Essays & reportage
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & arts
23 December 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Essays & reportage
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Books & arts
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
Essays & reportage
19 January 2017
My unexpected lunch with James Fairfax, once heir to the media empire
Books & arts
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes