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Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest arts news – today's “Artsday” column.
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Many of the artists refer, either directly or not, to the current climate in which we are living, when we are not able to see family and friends and must keep social distance, says reviewer MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
Beyond the art world's mad excesses, dear Bob Baker's art stands forlornly unloved.
The Canberra visual arts community is mourning the death of one of its greatest painters, Mandy Martin, who died on Saturday (July 10) after a long battle with cancer.
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Saying so much with simple shape and form
Canberra artist Marie Hagerty's new work proves that abstract art is much more than random lines and marks on a canvas.
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Lilli's fashion design win takes her to Japan
Following a recent "CityNews" story that Canberra-schooled fashion designer Lilli McKenzie had been shortlisted in a design competition being held by Mazda Australia, news is in from RMIT University that she has won.
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Arts star Cross finds virtue in the regions
One of Canberra’s genuine arts stars, Dean Cross has an upcoming art show, “Icarus, My Son”, opening at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery for NAIDOC Week.
Sixty finalist artworks for “Sculpture@Shaw” have been selected out of 153 entries from across the country, it was announced today (June 18).
A new portrait of actor Hugh Jackman is now on prominent display in the National Portrait Gallery.
Melbourne artist Peter Wegner has won the 2021 Archibald Prize and $100,000 for his portrait of artist Guy Warren at 100, coinciding with the 100 year anniversary of Australia’s oldest portrait award.
Ginger Meggs is taking centre stage in a new exhibition at the Mint, marking a century of the famous comic strip of the same name.
It's immediately apparent that this is work of the highest quality, and unsurprising that it's drawing the attention of domestic and international collectors, says reviewer JOHN LANDT.
Artist Sally Simpson won the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Acquisitive Art Award for her sculptural installation, “Fragile Equilibrium”, at the 2021 QPRC Art Awards last night (May 27).
In a singularly grim week for Australian theatre, not one but three important theatrical identities have died. Two of them were Canberrans.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales' packing room team have awarded the 30th annual Archibald Packing Room Prize to Kathrin Longhurst for her portrait of singer and songwriter Kate Ceberano.
What's on in the arts? Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's round-up.
Instead of extremes, the three exhibitions are generally set in one phase of the new normal – a period of calm between extremes, writes reviewer CORNELIS BOEKEL of the exhibition “Hot/Cold".
This is a varied collection of objects which displays the tastes and fashions of early European settlement in Australia, says reviewer MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
With a new suite of 12 oil paintings, Domenic Mico is exhibiting "In The Shadow of Light" at Bill Mason’s Kyeema Gallery in Hall.
