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Jewellery’s 'bad girl' displays precious mettle
New Zealand renegade Lisa Walker is far more Duchamp than Dior, Ray Edgar discovers.
- by Ray Edgar
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For the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project, just what does Raza have in store for us?
Asad Raza, the New York-based artist and producer who has been commissioned to create the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project, is not giving much away.
- by Nick Galvin
Flashback
From the Archives, 1959: Music Under A Silver Roof In A Garden Setting
On this day in 1959, a crowd of over 30,000 watched the opening of Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl. We look back with this article from the archives.
- by Neilma Sidney
Arts
Herald photographer among finalists in National Portrait Prize
James Brickwood from the Sydney Morning Herald, Max Mason-Hubers from the Newcastle Herald and Jamila Toderas from The Canberra Times are among 40 finalists.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
The love of art and desire
An exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art at the National Gallery in Canberra gives an insight into mid-19th century romance.
Terrible beauty of devastated country revealed
When photographer Paul Harmon first began piecing together the more than 100 individual images that make up each of his vast aerial landscapes, he was "blown away" by what he saw.
- by Nick Galvin
Can't get no satisfaction: Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate
If the art were a match for the stories and personalities this would be a show of masterpieces.
- by John McDonald
Love and desire
It’s as old as time and makes the world go round. We take a look at passions from the past.
By nature, a shared passion for the artistic world
Poring over a folder of meticulously archived diary scraps, sketches, lists and photographs, 74-year-old Michelle Collocott is vividly reliving a passionate and colourful life devoted to art.
- by Nick Galvin
Mosul artists process brutal rule of Islamic State
A raven perched on the shoulder of a woman with flaming hair is Iraqi artist Marwan Fathi's symbol for the terrible events he and his home city Mosul have had to endure.
- by Ayat Basma
Indigenous
'Beyond imagination': artists of the Kimberley share stories of their country
A six-year project to engage the artists and art centres of the Kimberley region of Western Australia has exceeded expectations, says arts patron Janet Holmes a Court.
- by Andrew Taylor