Visual Arts
Artwork buyers shun abuser
MICHAELA BOLANDGalleries rushing to show Albert
Rosemary NeillArt of darkness
Michaela BolandLiving in style
Christopher AllenA passion for krill-seekers
VICTORIA LAURIEA flick of paint
LOUIS WISEA passion for krill-seekers
VICTORIA LAURIEArchibald reject wins richest prize
Ashleigh WilsonEmbracing the monster
TIM DOUGLASGallery left feeling sheepish
Matthew WestwoodMasterpiece you can finally see
ROSEMARY NEILLLight and shadow
Matthew WestwoodMexican parables
Christopher AllenArtist paints bright future
EMILY RITCHIEGOMA’s global appeal at 10
Charlie PeelFully cultured kick-off
VICTORIA LAURIEIn Don Dale: ‘I want to get out’
amos aikmanDistinct impressions
CHRISTOPHER ALLENLight years ahead
Julian TompkinConservator turned vivisector
BRONWYN WATSONMORE STORIES
Artwork buyers shun abuser
The art of Donald Friend has been almost entirely driven underground 28 years after his death.
Galleries rushing to show Albert
The Namatjira Legacy Trust has been ‘inundated’ with requests to promote the legendary Aboriginal painter.
Art of darkness
He was a self-confessed paedophile. But does that mean Donald Friend’s art should be erased from our cultural landscape?
Her own way
She’s built a career playing quirky supporting roles. Now, at 60, Frances McDormand is taking the lead.
Irreplaceable writer, noblest friend
In Iain Shedden we’ve lost an adoring dad and the finest man.
Afrobeat releases
Cosmopolitan New York band Antibalas and Paris-based Nigerian Tony Allen have released two new Afrobeat albums.
Living in style
Inhabitants of modernist dwellings may be living in the alienation of self-representation, not the reality of home.
Thanatos Painter’s death trick
In early Athens, a standard offering to the dead — a vessel of olive oil — became a form of sly trickery.
Our bushranger myth blasted
Were the bushrangers of legend not chivalrous outback knights but mean and squalid psychopaths? We may finally have an answer.
The imperfect Eden of our yesterdays
Suburbia paints the neon-hued, big-haired, acid-washed landscape of the 80s with Heidleberg School exquisiteness.