Books & arts
A particular idea of Australianness
Richard Johnstone
8 December 2025
PIX magazine introduced photojournalism to a fast-changing mid-century society
Books & arts
Coming into focus
Richard Johnstone
29 April 2025
Time has transformed photographs of largely unknown people into representatives of an era
From the archive
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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