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Artwork using AI wins $10,000 in the Brisbane Portrait Prize
The winners for 2024 have been announced, and they include an AI-generated work and images that push the definition of a “portrait” to the limit.
- by Nick Dent
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It’s a great year for ancient Egypt - but mummies make museums nervous
The National Museum of Australia’s Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition, one of three big shows in Australia, has cautionary signs for those who might be upset by human remains.
- by John McDonald
Fish, family and friends: Young Archie winners on show
This year’s winners, including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon, painted siblings, parents and best friends.
The best way to understand Australian landscape art? Go feral in the remote wild
Of all the art events I’ve attended over the past decade, my trips to Newhaven have proven the most valuable.
- by John McDonald
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Inside the campaign to take down Gina Rinehart’s portraits
Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.
- by Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw
Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time
The artist’s suite of large-scale landscape paintings will be shown in the place they were made.
- by John McDonald
Corporate watchdog clears Indigenous art centre
Allegations that non-Indigenous arts workers meddled with Indigenous art sent shockwaves through the industry.
- by Liz Hobday
The swimmer who got to the Paris Olympics without training in the pool
Olympian Clementine Stoney Maconachie is headed for Paris, but not as a swimmer this time.
- by Helen Pitt
The Melbourne artist flipping the script on Hollywood’s ‘white saviours’
Future Remains is the fourth exhibition in a series that opens doors for some of our most promising artists.
- by Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Works by art superstar Brett Whiteley come to Logan
The legendary artist’s major exhibition is bypassing QAGOMA and HOTA in favour of an oft-overlooked regional gallery.
- by Nick Dent
These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century
A new show at the State Library of NSW celebrates a century of Australian cartooning.
- by Helen Pitt