Last updated: October 21, 2017
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Artwork buyers shun abuser

TWAM 20 OCT 2017
MICHAELA BOLAND
The art of Donald Friend has been almost entirely driven underground 28 years after his death.

Galleries rushing to show Albert

Namatjira
Rosemary Neill
The Namatjira Legacy Trust has been ‘inundated’ with requests to promote the legendary Aboriginal painter.

Art of darkness

TWAM 20 OCT 2017
Michaela Boland
He was a self-confessed paedophile. But does that mean Donald Friend’s art should be erased from our cultural landscape?

Living in style

Frisco Furniture Store, Punchbowl, 1963 designed by Lukacs & Gergely Architects
Christopher Allen
Inhabitants of modernist dwellings may be living in the alienation of self-representation, not the ­reality of home.

A passion for krill-seekers

Wade Hughes Whale Photographer
VICTORIA LAURIE
For more than a decade Wade Hughes and wife Robyn have captured the world of the whales.

A flick of paint

Film still from Loving Vincent
LOUIS WISE
Imagine the most high-end picture flipbook technology can deliver: the new film Loving Vincent is that and more.

A passion for krill-seekers

Wade Hughes Whale Photographer
VICTORIA LAURIE
For more than a decade Wade Hughes and wife Robyn have captured the world of the whales.

Archibald reject wins richest prize

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Ashleigh Wilson
Tim Storrier has been awarded the $150,000 Moran prize for a portrait of his friend, fellow artist McLean Edwards.

Embracing the monster

Artist Patricia Piccinini
TIM DOUGLAS
Her work was called disgusting and embarrassing. Can Patricia Piccinini mend a bridge with the city that broke her heart?

Gallery left feeling sheepish

Supplied Editorial
Matthew Westwood
A photograph of a naked man lying in bed and straddled by a sheep has threatened plans for an exotic art exhibition.

Masterpiece you can finally see

Albert Namatjira
ROSEMARY NEILL
In a stunning breakthrough, a hard fought copyright deal hands control of Albert Namatjira’s works to his ­descendants.

Light and shadow

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Matthew Westwood
Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographic output covered so much more than just his X portfolio.

Mexican parables

Edward Weston’s Guadalupe, Mexico, 1924
Christopher Allen
This show captures the pathos and endurance, the stoicism and the restricted mental world, of Mexico’s peasant masses.

Artist paints bright future

Brett Whiteley
EMILY RITCHIE
Sydney artist Sally Anderson has won this year’s Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship for emerging artists.

GOMA’s global appeal at 10

Richter GOMA Exhibition
Charlie Peel
An exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s works is framing a record year of success for Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art.

Fully cultured kick-off

Supplied image of public artwork at the new Perth Stadium. Source: Garerth Andersen/Government of WA
VICTORIA LAURIE
Sporting culture won’t be the only attraction for the crowds flocking to the new Perth Stadium.

In Don Dale: ‘I want to get out’

"This Message is for Me" - by DB: It’s a message for me. The painting is about me being in Don Dale and wanting to get out.
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Paintings by girls in detention are just one of the ways subjects have told their stories to the NT royal commission | IMAGES.

Distinct impressions

Arthur Streeton Golden summer, Eaglemont 1889, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Purchased 1995, IRN 61325 From the exhibition: Australian Impressionism National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Until 31 Oct 2017 To be used in conjunction with exhibition only; not to be cropped, overprinted, altered; must credit
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN
The best of the work of Roberts, Street­on and Conder is largely responsive to local conditions, and is thus original.

Light years ahead

Gerhard Richter. Picture: Robert Michael/ullstein bild via Getty Images.
Julian Tompkin
At 85, German artist Gerhard Richter feels time is running out. A GOMA show lets locals audiences share his vision.

Conservator turned vivisector

Supplied Editorial Fwd: FW: Bronwyn Watson
BRONWYN WATSON
Penny Byrne leads a double life: as a ceramics conservator and an artist who attacks and subverts pieces as artworks.
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