Visual art
Fish, family and friends: Young Archie winners on show
This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.
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The best way to understand Australian landscape art? Go feral in the remote wild
Of all the art events I’ve attended over the past decade, my trips to Newhaven have proven the most valuable.
- by John McDonald
Single, lonely, eccentric: reclaiming the ‘sexist’ cat lady stereotype
Music megastar Taylor Swift is the “the poster girl for cat ladies”. So why does the trope persist as shorthand for a single, lonely, eccentric, sexless woman?
- by Cara Waters
Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time
The artist’s suite of large-scale landscape paintings will be shown in the place they were made.
- by John McDonald
The Melbourne artist flipping the script on Hollywood’s ‘white saviours’
Future Remains is the fourth exhibition in a series that opens doors for some of our most promising artists.
- by Vyshnavee Wijekumar
These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century
A new show at the State Library of NSW celebrates a century of Australian cartooning.
- by Helen Pitt
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History
Family makes shock discovery of unknown Captain Flinders portrait
The painting, worth more than $1 million, has gone on public display for the first time this week ahead of a reburial service for the explorer, the first person to circumnavigate Australia.
- by Rob Harris
Opinion
Review
When was the last time a soap ad gave you spiritual pleasure?
Alphonse Mucha made the bold claim that his posters turned the street in “open-air art exhibitions”.
- by John McDonald
Want to buy an Archibald winner’s work for $100? This art show is your chance
The Incognito Art Show features works by Archibald winners and helps raise funds for artists with disabilities.
- by Helen Pitt
Mona’s ‘priceless’ toilet cubicle Picassos? They’re forged
The controversy around the Ladies Lounge, a conceptual women-only space at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, has taken yet another turn.
- by Karl Quinn
What does Michelangelo have to do with Baby Reindeer? You’ll never guess
Long before Taylor Swift, conspiracy theorists were joining the cultural dots.
- by Jordan Prosser