Art Journalism (Articles)

Archaeology // News

The year of Australia's corporate art sell off? Major pension fund latest to liquidate collection

The Construction and Building Unions Superannuation fund hopes to net $6.3m from auctioning its works with Deutscher and Hackett’s in Melbourne…
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Art market // News

Sale of William Barak works breaches 'Aboriginal cultural lore', says Australian Wurundjeri elder

The Wurundjeri Corporation hopes to crowdfund $175,000 to secure the return of the pieces, which are being sold by the De Pury family at Sotheby’s New York…
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Museums & Heritage // News

In new Senegal museum, Albers Foundation will exhibit repatriated African objects and expand legacy of Bauhaus

Bët-bi, planned for 2025, will be designed by architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara…
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Australia // News

'The damage is incomprehensible': toll of Australia floods on cultural precinct of Lismore

Floodwaters rose to second-floor ceiling of Lismore Regional Gallery, at the “epicentre” of the disaster for the New South Wales town…
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Art market // News

National Australia Bank to sell off its $7.2m contemporary art collection next week

Proceeds from the auctions, at Deutscher and Hackett and Leonard Joel, have been earmarked for climate change programme, but questions arise over bank's motivations…
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Archaeology // News

Ancient Aboriginal rock art—removed by museum staff in the 1960s in an act of 'official vandalism'—returns home

The 4,000-year-old petroglyphs are being handed over by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart…
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Museums // Analysis

How an Australian collector’s strings-attached gift paved the way for a new $36m museum

Shepparton Art Museum opened late last year but a ballooning budget and conflicting local politics have made led to a mixed reception…
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Contemporary art // News

'One of the best works of the year'? Candles of media tycoons Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch burn in Jeremy Deller's Australian installation

Critic Jerry Saltz heaps praise on the Turner Prize-winning artist's 12-hour meditation on unchecked power and influence…
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Private Museums // News

Australian billionaire’s proposed museum for $380m art collection angers rural community

Planning application for Melbourne businessman Lindsey Hogg’s Rosemaur Gallery has international support but faces local opposition…
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Openings // News

Fast forward: revamped Australian Centre for the Moving Image promises a high-tech experience

The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections…
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Yoko Ono // News

Just a 'well-known celebrity': Australian tourism chief doubted Yoko Ono's ability to draw crowds

Letter reveals that 2013 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art was offered AU$500,000 of state money despite reservations…
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Exhibitions // News

Canary in the coal mine: Simon Denny on his new show about mining data and minerals

Exhibition by New Zealand-born, Berlin-based artist opens at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart
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Building projects // News

$890m Sydney museum move could be most expensive gallery relocation in history

Critics fear that plan will lead to parts of the Powerhouse Museum’s collection being sold off…
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Building projects // News

Australia's largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne

New space will help National Gallery of Victoria to capitalise on blockbuster exhibitions…
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Controversies // News

Candice Breitz renames video installation at National Gallery of Victoria's Triennial to protest against Australia’s treatment of refugees

South African artist is campaigning against gallery's contract with Wilson Security and its involvement with country's offshore detention facilities…
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Public art // News

Anri Sala’s installation considers dark side of the Age of Enlightenment

Public work in Sydney connects Mozart masterpiece with arrival of British First Fleet…
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Exhibitions // News

Joseph Kosuth bathes gallery in signature neon for first Australian survey

Exhibition brings high priest of conceptualism to Melbourne International Festival
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Exhibitions // News

Despite protests, Tasmania gives Nitsch his biggest-ever audience

Bloody performance at MONA Museum’s Dark Mofo festival attracted 900 visitors
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Art Journalism (Social Media)

 
 

Art heaven or hell? Museum’s epic £15m tunnel brings to life Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours

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Mike Parr | printmaker, performance artist, provocateur
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Dark Mofo: Our Time by United Visual Artists

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