Art & Design
Key stakeholders back precinct master plan
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Key players in Brisbane’s cultural precinct have backed a draft master plan to revamp South Bank, saying it will future proof the city’s arts scene and give residents more entertainment options.
Cultural precinct to get new theatre, hotel under proposed master plan
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Queenslanders have one month to tell the government what they think of a sweeping new master plan for Brisbane’s cultural precinct.
Merle's Bar toasts Brisbane suffragette
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Merle Thornton, who famously chained herself to the bar at the Regatta Hotel and ordered a beer, has had a bar named in her honour.
Fear young artists will flee Queensland
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The closure of two youth arts organisations has sparked fears Queensland could lose its reputation as a rich breeding ground for young artists.
Jemima Wyman's Pattern Bandits at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The Gallery of Modern Art has established a pattern of successful exhibitions, and its latest one is taking that mantle literally.
Brisbane fashion house set to make a splash with Game of Thrones licenced clothes
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Winter may be coming for Brisbane fashion house Black Milk, but it’s a sign of good times, not bad.
Nice rock
Rare diamond goes on show in Brisbane
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The biggest diamond ever to be mined and cut in Canada has gone on display for the first time in the world.
MoB Rules
Museum of Brisbane 2014 program released
NATALIE BOCHENSKI From the waves of Moreton Bay to the words of writer David Malouf, the 2014 Museum of Brisbane program has a distinctly personal touch.
Phoenix Rising
Teen artist channels Aspergers into glorious colour and texture
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Phoenix Kenny’s head is like a gallery of pictures waiting to be painted.
Preserving artistic history
Expo 88 artist donates notes on sculpture
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The sculptor behind the Expo 88 installation Paradigm has donated his behind-the-scenes work on the project to the Queensland State Library.
Treasure found
Painting reveals Brisbane's prison past
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Historians have identified the only painting of St Helena Island as a working prison, as painted by an inmate.
Metal as anything
Silver lining to new Brisbane exhibition
NATALIE BOCHENSKI A new design exhibition has paired Queensland photographers and jewellers to interpret memories and experiences of the River City.
Retro Cool
Original Barbie part of California dreaming
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Eames chairs, an Oscar statuette and a genuine 1959 Barbie doll are just some of the treasures on display in QAG's latest exhibition.
QAGoMA director thinks big picture
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The director of the Queensland Art Gallery has revealed his exciting vision to revamp the facility.
Facing Monsters
Kids illustrate their fears at Woodford
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Three school children will have their childhood monsters turned into six metre high puppets for this year's Woodford Folk Festival.
Touring the City of Lights
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Imagine being perched ten metres above the Brisbane River, wearing four kilometres of fishing wire, and being pelted by river water.
Golden Touch
Artefacts hidden from Taliban unveiled in Brisbane
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Over 230 artefacts saved from destruction by the Taliban will go on display at the Queensland Museum.
Music
Gaming and live music make nice mix
Zoe Hincliffe It takes a particular type of creative expert to capture the attention of our tech-driven society.
Art Appeal
Gallery wants 'Apocalypse' now
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The Queensland Art Gallery has appealed for funds to piece together a 500-year-old apocalyptic puzzle.
Art up for grabs
TV mogul's Sale of the Century
NATALIE BOCHENSKI It's Reg Grundy's Sale of the Century - and you'll need a very large Wheel of Fortune to buy in.
Kidnapped Brennan back behind the lens
NATALIE BOCHENSKI Nigel Brennan's latest exhibition represents a cathartic journey.
New Qld Museum head to showcase state
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The Queensland Museum’s new chief executive believes there is an “enormous opportunity” to put the state’s physical and cultural history on the world stage.
Saines welcomed as new art gallery director
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The Queensland Art Gallery should develop and tour more of its own exhibitions, according to its new director.
Games
Game developer's latest fishing expedition
NATALIE BOCHENSKI The simple act of skimming stones has inspired Brisbane game developer Halfbrick's latest creation.
Ink-spiration on the Gold Coast
Natalie Bochenski The fourth annual Surf 'n' Ink festival is underway from January 11 to 13.
Kids line up to pat dinosaur
Natalie Bochenski Hear them roar: Dinosaur Petting Zoo arrives at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Game on at the State Library
Natalie Bochenski The State Library of Queensland is throwing open its doors to gamers for the ultimate level up.
Contemporary art exhibition set to delight
Natalie Bochenski Bright, bold, inventive - and fully air-conditioned - the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art will be the place to be this summer.
Frock lives of the rich and famous
Natalie Bochenski Nicholas Inglis has been a devoted QPAC usher for 23 years. Now, he's bringing his secret passion for memorabilia out of the closet.
Art that's wide eyed and a little rock 'n' roll
Natalie Bochenski You know you've probably made it in the art world when Eric Clapton requests an audience.
Japanese artist Kozo Nishino finishes public sculptures for National Arboretum
CLARE COLLEY 7:01pm Two kinetic sculptures by Japanese artist Kozo Nishino will be installed at the National Arboretum on Wednesday.
Relations between AGNSW and its volunteers and supporters hit new low
ANDREW TAYLOR 5:24am Relations between the Art Gallery of NSW and its volunteers and supporters have deteriorated, with gallery management accused of undermining the Art Gallery Society.
Book Council of Australia to be scrapped as $52.5 million cut to arts revealed in MYEFO
Dewi Cooke, Garry Maddox, Linda Morris 7:13pm The Book Council of Australia is gone and $36.8 million will be cut from government-funded galleries and museums under budget-saving measures announced by Treasurer Scott Morrison.
Australian Synchrotron used to analyse pigments to restore Frederick McCubbin's The North Wind
Dylan Rainforth 1:50pm A year-long restoration of Frederick McCubbin's c1888 oil painting, The North Wind, used the intense electromagnetic radiation,
Aleks Danko is having a laugh at Heide Museum of Modern Art
Robert Nelson 11:23am With bad puns and a dose of self-ridicule, Aleks Danko takes conceptual art from the intimidating to the winsome.
Fehily Contemporary joins forces with Armadale's Mossgreen
Dylan Rainforth 11:39am Auction house and gallery Mossgreen has incorporated Fehily Contemporary in a partnership that will see the Collingwood gallery move to Armadale in February.
Indigenous artist Tracey Moffatt to represent Australia at 2017 Venice Biennale
Dylan Rainforth 10:46am Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt will represent Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
David Walsh takes punt on $150m casino development as part of major MONA expansion
DEBBIE CUTHBERTSON Museum of Old and New Art founder rolls the dice again with plans for a $150 million casino and hotel plus a $20 million extension of the Hobart landmark.
Unsettled art show accompanies Encounters at the National Museum of Australia
CLARE COLLEY Artist Judy Watson sees the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts from the British Museum as resonating with strength and power in Encounters at the National Museum of Australia.
Suburbia: does the great Australian dream have life in it yet?
Ray Edgar The suburbs have ever been scorned, but the housing affordability crisis has fanned our hunger to reconnect with a life outside the gritty inner city.
MCA attracts as many visitors as Art Gallery of NSW at a fraction of the cost
ANDREW TAYLOR NSW Premier Mike Baird welcomed the 1 millionth visitor to the MCA in 2015, as figures show the museum provides taxpayers with the best value for money.
Sydney's superb Lego makeover
ELISSA BLAKE An epic Opera House and Luna Park with working Ferris wheel made of Lego is just the opener in a fascinating new exhibition that has space for kids and adults alike to build their own creations.
Australian classic
Review: John McDonald on Tom Roberts at the National Gallery of Australia, a break-away star
John McDonald Though he never saw it in his lifetime, Tom Roberts' rise to become one of Australia's most celebrated artists was well deserved, as illustrated by a new retrospective.
Review: Encounters: Revealing stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects from the British Museum
Sasha Grishin This show will have a strong impact on viewers who pause to hear the voices of the assembled objects.
The Last Temptation: The art of Ken + Julia Yonetani at NGA Contemporary in Canberra
RON CERABONA An art installation at NGA Contemporary has some pertinent points to make.
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei review: National Gallery of Victoria's pairing of contemporary masters produces show of great daring
Robert Nelson This exhibition ingeniously hunts down the parallels between Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei, assembling images in clever dialogue.
Art review: Akin to Lust by Hayley Boyle, A Place Within by Thea McGrath, Silver and Gold by David Flanagan
Peter Haynes Three CIT graduates who received PhotoAccess residencies are showing the varied and impressive results of their opportunity.
The moving images of Andy Warhol revealed in National Gallery of Victoria exhibition
PHILIPPA HAWKER Even now, after 20 years of immersion, research and exploration, Warhol expert Greg Pierce believes there are still many things left for him to discover.
Drawn in
Lloyd Rees' delicate details brought to life in Museum of Sydney exhibition
NICK GALVIN Suspended above the entrance of the Museum of Sydney is a striking 40 square-metre reproduction of a masterly Lloyd Rees drawing of an ancient Sydney fig tree.
Photos
Children's Voices
The State Library of Qld's latest exhibition examines human rights through children's eyes.
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home
GOMA's largest ever exhibition of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. their lives, their history and their country.
Video
Nudes and sushi: Tunick's in Oz
Photographer Spencer Tunick, known for his pictures of nudes, lost his clothes on his flight into Sydney ahead of his naked gathering at the Opera House.
Picture perfect: Archibald 2010
Entries for Archibald 2010 have started arriving at the Art Gallery of NSW, all hoping to be the winner of the $50,000 prize.
Celebrities mourn McQueen
Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba and members of the fashion community remember British designer Alexander McQueen.
McQueen found dead
British fashion designer Alexander McQueen is found dead at his London home. He was 40 years old.
