Books & arts
Coming into focus
Richard Johnstone
29 April 2025
Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era
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
An extra-ordinary collaboration
Michelle Staff
9 July 2024
Two institutions have joined forces to open up Australian history using storied objects
Books & arts
What a difference a frame makes
Richard Johnstone
23 January 2024
Three photo exhibitions map out different points on the spectrum between reality and art
Books & arts
Face time
Stephen Mills
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
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
Hold your fire
Julie Shiels
9 April 2018
Visual Arts | The temptation is to look away. But what are we really trying to avoid?
Books & arts
The first war for country, for nation
Emily Gallagher
18 May 2017
Exhibitions | An exhibition and an unveiling at the Australian War Memorial suggest a willingness to tell a deeper story about Australia’s frontier past
Books & arts
Forty millennia of Indigenous history at the British Museum
Maria Nugent
8 May 2015
The British Museum’s Indigenous Australia exhibition could change the conversation about relations between Indigenous people, museums and collections
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