Culture
Art & design
Doilies be damned, this ain’t your grandma’s crochet
Textile artist Luise Elsing returned to crochet after nearly 50 years - instantly she was hooked.
- by Nick Galvin
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Photo Gallery: Sydney’s Supernova Comi Con
Herald photographer Jessica Hromas finds cosplayers around Sydney adding some colour to a wet and cold mid-winter weekend.
Adding an owl to this painting was a wise move, it just won a $75,000 prize
A portrait rejected by the Archibald Prize judges has scooped this year’s Darling Prize.
- by Nick Galvin
This is a monumental exhibition worthy of its monumental subject
Pharaoh – the British Museum’s largest-ever loan exhibition – is quite exceptional. A monumental subject has brought forth a monumental feat of exhibition design.
- by John McDonald
Bumper festival crowds prompt tourism rethink
Sydney’s winter festivals could be front and centre of a new tourism push after Vivid drew a near record crowd this year.
- by Linda Morris and Helen Pitt
Police escorts, angry drivers: Australia’s most expensive art commission has arrived
An immersive, public sculpture by Australian artist Lindy Lee has arrived at the National Gallery of Australia, after its epic journey from Brisbane on the back of a truck.
- by Linda Morris
A ‘love letter’ to the man who helped save Sydney Harbour
A new exhibition of the works of Peter Kingston – showing his beloved Sydney Harbour and home – has opened at the State Library.
- by Helen Pitt
We had some questions about the Jacob Elordi portrait. The artist answered
Whose idea was it for the Australian actor to be shirtless – and what’s with the Camus?
- by Melanie Kembrey
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Rising Festival
Melbourne’s biggest arts festival closes this weekend. Its future is in doubt
Rising is the biggest cultural event in Victoria and receives millions in government funding, with ambitions to rival the Australian Open and Grand Prix.
- by Meg Watson
Bowie, Thatcher and Picasso unite to explore the danger of our fame obsession
The new exhibition Namedropping at Mona is by turns enjoyable and uncomfortable, with ideas that pick at the way you see the world and then follow you out of the building.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Australia’s oldest working artist Guy Warren dies, aged 103
Born in 1921, the same year the Archibald Prize began, Warren went on to win it, both as painter and later subject.
- by Helen Pitt