Culture
Art & design
Is this weird Franken-picture really art?
The debate around a notorious computer generated portrait is still raging.
- by Caroline Zielinski
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In fragile glass, an artist reflects on a departed mother’s love
Hedy Ritterman has transformed her family home into an exhibition that explores the precious fragility and strength in the mother-daughter bond.
- by Stephen Crafti
Inspired by xenophobia, these images were made with a mission in mind
Questions of identity and rights are underlined in a series of posters by artist Peter Drew.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
‘To survive you had to be a smuggler’: How James Nguyen turned seeds into art
The artist has made a digital artwork based on a moment in his childhood that built a bridge between past and future, war and refuge.
- by Nick Miller
It looks like a colour chart, but it’s code for the artist’s heart
Artist Robert Owen - the subject of a current survey at Heide - accumulates ideas like a bower bird. But some pieces hint at deeper currents of meaning.
- by John McDonald
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Exhibitions
Power and the fashion: Pitch to turn Powerhouse Ultimo into design hub
Sydney philanthropist Gene Sherman has called for the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo to become the state’s first cultural institution dedicated to the display of design, decorative arts, and fashion.
- by Linda Morris
‘This headdress is telling me it needs to go home’: Ancient artefacts returned to Australia
The single largest collection of Indigenous items has been repatriated to Australia.
- by Linda Morris
Exhibition an SOS to save our future
It isn’t the tree’s age-old, symbolic significance that forms the focus of this exhibition; it’s the destruction of wilderness that threatens the very basis of human life.
- by John McDonald
Basket case: the ancient craft’s contemporary boom
Politicians have given basket weaving a bad name, but its slow, hypnotic rhythms might be the ideal antidote to this fast, digital life.
- by Stephanie Wood
Memories of a brainwashed childhood
Growing up in “Stasiland”, artist Kathrin Longhurst was forced to play the game
- by Steve Meacham
How a spectacular light show reunited towns sundered by COVID
A bridge over a lagoon near where Echuca meets Moama is home to a new light installation that’s healing memories of border closures.
- by Catherine Lambert