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Conscious Sleep by Chiharu Shiota
The 20th Biennale of Sydney
By Julie Ewington
Illustration
Artist Jan Senbergs prepares for his NGV retrospective
By Quentin Sprague
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, until 1 May 2016
By Julie Ewington
Convergence and contradiction at the NGV’s ‘Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei’
By Julie Ewington
Dugong figure, Tudu Island, Torres Strait.
The National Museum of Australia’s ‘Encounters’ and the politics of collection
By Quentin Sprague
Dusan Marek, Scientific Priest, 1965
NGV Australia, Melbourne (until 31 January 2016)
Catherine the Great still reigns in the NGV’s ‘Masterpieces from the Hermitage’
By Julie Ewington
Icon as exhibit at ACMI’s ‘David Bowie Is’
By Anwen Crawford
Marina Abramović in Australia
By Fiona McGregor
Power and resistance at the 56th Venice Biennale
By Julie Ewington
Martin Edmond has long written about artists, and his book Battarbee and Namatjira is an account of the artists’ lengthy friendship. Erik Jensen’s Acute Misfortune: The life and death of Adam Cullen is an intimate portrait of the artist’s troubled life. Join them in conversation about the lives of
Dibirdibi Country (2012), Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (Mrs Gabori).
The meteoric career of Kaiadilt painter Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda
By Quentin Sprague
‘James Turrell: A Retrospective’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
By Benjamin Law
‘Pop to Popism’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
By Julie Ewington
Gambler and MONA founder David Walsh has written a book
By Amanda Lohrey
The Monthly Book for October 2014 is Acute Misfortune: The life and death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen. When Erik Jensen accepted an invitation to write the biography of the Archibald Prize–winning artist Adam Cullen in 2008, the young journalist didn’t know that he would be shot at, thrown from a speeding
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years.
Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years.

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