Culture
Art & design
Museum of Contemporary Art director Liz Ann Macgregor to step down
After 22 years in the job, Macgregor said it was time to move on and spend more time with her family in Scotland.
- by Linda Morris
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How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million
In October 2020, art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.
- by Elizabeth Howcroft and Ritvik Carvalho
Show me the Monet, the Manet, and many more in Impressionism feast
This winter Melbourne will be treated to hundreds of French and Australian Impressionist masterpieces as the NGV shines new light on the world’s most-loved art movement.
- by Nick Miller
Opinion
Review
Art expedition: five artists go bush to help endangered species
A posse of artists headed north to Mount Zero Taravale to highlight (and raise money for) our shrinking bush and endangered animals.
- by John McDonald
Think you know Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? Here’s what you’ve been missing
It’s one of the most famous paintings in the world, but there’s more to Sunflowers if you take the time to look.
- by Louise Rugendyke
What’s showing in Melbourne galleries this week
The photographs that greet visitors to Composite Acts look like an experiment in portraiture.
- by Tiarney Miekus
‘So many mysteries’: artists peer up into the wonder that is trees
There is a lot we can learn from the lungs of the Earth.
- by Andrew Stephens
Archibald-winning artist Vincent Namatjira installs largest work yet at MCA
“I’m trying to bring my neck of the woods to the city, to the Big Smoke, for everyone to see,” the artist said.
- by Nick Galvin
How the Sydney Opera House plans to win back its crowds
The iconic venue hopes to halt a drop in audience numbers by wooing the public back with events that are optimistic, comfortable and escapist.
- by Linda Morris
How Vincent Lingiari’s trousers almost foiled the famous Whitlam shot
Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s first Indigenous press photographer, shares behind-the-scenes stories ahead of an exhibition in his honour which opens today.
- by Helen Pitt
Rembrandt, the original selfie master, was too honest for his own good
The Dutch master’s obsession with the self-portrait sits well in the Instagram age. But would you want him to paint your portrait?
- by Louise Rugendyke