Vivid Sydney
Sydney will become a brilliant canvas of beautiful light, ground-breaking music and innovative ideas over an 18-day period which will attract visitors from all around Australia and overseas.
Profile: Tsering Hannaford
Even though Tsering Hannaford grew up surrounded by art, as the daughter of well-known South Australian artist Robert Hannaford, the plan wasn’t always to be an artist.
Beyond the walls
Art by Prisoners is the second exhibition of work by South Australian inmates organised by Flinders University PhD student Jeremy Ryder, who is studying the art’s impact within and beyond…
Smarten Up
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s revitalised Melrose Wing is the focus of the gallery’s biennial lecture series GetsmART.
Big game hunting
American academic and author Ellen Dissanayake recently shared with Australian audiences her perspectives on the nature of art. When thinking about what distinguished art from other forms of adaptive human…
Down in the woods today
Remember when modern sculpture began to resemble a snake hung on a fence to die? Everyone knew that it wouldn’t die until sundown but by the later 1970s the light…
State of the Arts: Can sharing a meal be art?
In the current issue of Artforum there is a double obituary for the late Australian critic Robert Hughes and United States critic Hilton Kramer.
Urban Ballet
Lisa Tomasetti’s photographic exhibition of the Australian Ballet on the international stage isn’t the usual behind the scenes look at a company on tour. No shots of rehearsals and intimate…
Fresh Mint
A space behind an adventure travel agent, once a campervan display room, found via Gumtree and named with the help of a random word generator... Mint Artist Studios had unusual…
Profile: Joshua Miels
With another Adelaide commercial gallery, Greenhill Galleries, closing its doors early this year there are fewer and fewer opportunities for artists to gain representation and exhibit their work.
Review: Thingshow
Ben Leslie has curated an exhibition of objects that oscillate between absurdity and wonder.
From A to B, going the distance
A handful of Adelaideans explain why Berlin, their home away from home, conjures ‘notions of Utopia’ and remains one of the world’s most intoxicating places to live.


