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'I didn't eat for a week': The passion and pain of collecting art
On the eve of Sydney Contemporary art fair, five leading artists, collectors and philanthropists share their passion and tips for collecting art.
- by Andrew Taylor
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Sun Xun review: Fall into an alternative world
The Chinese artist has no time for banal but familiar exercises in style, such as a Damien Hirst spot painting; or for those angry political statements with which all liberal-minded people hasten to agree.
- by John McDonald
Baldessin revealed in joint NGV show with Sydney's flamboyant Whiteley
Lionised in his lifetime, the Melbourne-based artist is being introduced to a new audience.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Arts
Self portrait wins artist Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
An artistic ''conversation'' with Frida Kahlo wins Sydney artist Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
- by Linda Morris
Art
Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces from Tate coming to the national gallery
The two most iconic Pre-Raphaelite paintings are leaving the UK together for the first time for a major exhibition at the Australian National Gallery.
- by Shona Martyn
Performing arts
Thirteen-year-old slam poet champions change
Solli Raphael wants to be a voice of his generation.
- by Linda Morris
Arts
Endearing everyday moments, slices of Australian life on show
From children playing in the remote rock pools of the Kimberley to a beach shack made entirely of thongs, sometimes it's the simplest images of everyday Australian life that are the most arresting.
- by Sarah Emery
Arts
Nude gender quotas won't be put in place says Art Gallery of NSW
Male or female, see a painted nude in the flesh, urges the gallery's deputy director.
- by Linda Morris
Gender equality
Royal Academy nudes to reach gender parity as art world grapples equality
Britain's Royal Academy is to ensure its next exhibition of nudes has an equal gender split of naked men and women, as it navigates the post-Me Too era.
- by Hannah Furness
Review: William Robinson portrays the supernatural power of nature and creation
The Creation may be a constant theme in Indigenous art but William Robinson is one of very few western artists to tackle this vast and portentous subject.
- by John McDonald
Artists open 1000 Doors onto other worlds and emotions for Melbourne Festival
In the warehouse-sized lower level of their Melbourne studio-office, Christian Wagstaff and Keith Courtney show me the door. It's an old timber one that looks like it's been salvaged from a Victorian terrace house, full of character.
- by Andrew Stephens