Visual art
Dazzling lasers the highlight of low-key Arts House return
Housewarming at Arts House is a celebration of the experimental vanguard of the performing arts - and Robin Fox’s galactic lightshow is the best of a mixed bunch.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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An unfinished landscape: She-Oak show sheds new light on classics
The NGV’s new exhibition of Australian Impressionism is beautiful and absorbing. It also breaks new ground - but not as much as it could have.
- by Tiarney Miekus
New Netflix documentary explores world’s greatest art mystery
The paintings by Rembrandt, Degas, Manet and Vermeer might have vanished, but the intrigue about the robbery has never faded.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Graffiti artist requests his work be restored after couple accidentally defaced it
The couple saw brushes and paint cans in front of a paint-splattered canvas at a gallery in a Seoul shopping mall. So they added a few brush strokes.
- by Youmi Kim and Mike Ives
Australia’s oldest artist remains at the canvas, reaching a century
Painter Guy Warren, turns 100 on April 16. Retirement? “An absurdity.” A raft of new exhibitions proves his staying power.
- by John McDonald
Dutch police make arrest over stolen Van Gogh painting
Dutch police have arrested a suspect in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said.
- by Mike Corder
She used to cut up cereal boxes for supplies, now this paper artist wins awards
Gamilaroi artist Kerry Toomey draws on mourning and loss, as well as joyful memories of aunties in their Sunday best. And that’s plenty to hang a hat on.
- by Nick Galvin
All the lonely creatures: a trip into Shaun Tan’s mind
A new exhibition of work by the artist explores a powerful theme: misfits, outcasts and horrors, trying to find their place in the world.
- by Clare Millar
‘Why wasn’t I born a man?’: children aim to right an artistic wrong
The story of Judith Perrey, a mostly forgotten painter from the first half of the 20th century, raises unresolved questions about gender bias in Australian art.
- by Nick Miller
Archibald winner Nora Heysen was crushed by men who laughed at her art
The first female winner of the Archibald Prize faced ridicule from an art world who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Nora Heysen is now considered one of Australia’s great portrait painters but it took 62 years before her work was hung in the National Portrait Gallery.
- by Jennifer Higgie
‘Blood is such a powerful thing’: Why Tasmania’s edgy arts festival backed down
MONA’s senior curator says the gallery and its associated festivals will examine “new thinking, ideas and initiatives” in coming weeks and months.
- by Broede Carmody