This Month
- My Brilliant Weekend
- Life & Leisure
Michael Brand’s weekend rituals and favourite restaurants
The Art Gallery of NSW director has a packed weekday – and night – agenda. This is how he lets go on Saturdays and Sundays.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
April
This famous artist hates questions, and isn’t afraid to let you know
Celebrated Australian artist Dale Frank, whose 10-year survey has just opened at the National Art School in Sydney, will answer your questions. Begrudgingly.
- Samantha Hutchinson
NGA seeks $60 million for sculpture park revamp
Major philanthropic support will fund a project to revitalise the gardens linking the National Gallery of Australia and Lake Burley Griffin.
- Tom McIlroy
The beautiful French city built on the profits of pastel
Toulouse may be France’s fourth-biggest city, but its centre still has the intimacy of a substantial country town.
- Robert Bevan
March
These ‘bad boy’ art works are not for the faint-hearted
Pieces from Sydney enfants terribles, Brett Whiteley and Adam Cullen, will be auctioned in Melbourne at the end of March.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Local Vinnies a treasure trove for early pieces by renowned sculptor
From Detroit to local markets, two Melbourne artists spent 25 years assembling an unrivalled collection of mid-century design pieces by Clement Meadmore.
- Paul Best
How Auckland Art Gallery suddenly scored 15 modern masterpieces
One of America’s wealthiest investors has left $167m worth of famous artworks to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The question on everyone’s lips: why New Zealand?
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Want to add $20m to the value of a painting? Say it’s by Rembrandt
When it comes to predicting what an artwork might be worth, attribution trumps aethestics – and the considered opinion of the art connoisseur is all powerful.
- Colin Moynihan
February
The eyes have it: Little Prince makes big splash
Deborah Halpern’s boldly coloured bust smashed through its estimate as early season auctions get underway.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Auction houses target Asian art, farewell market stalwarts
Two auction houses are investing in their Asian art expertise, and the industry is mourning three deaths in the art market family.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
How far would you push it to make your mark?
Perth-born Jacobus Capone is willing to clamber over glaciers in the Arctic Circle or bury himself for weeks in a Japanese forest to make art. Only, he wouldn’t call it art.
- John McDonald
- Opinion
- Opinion
Culture is being poisoned by lazy, unoriginal, populist ideas
The arts have always thrived because of new work – but that situation is now endangered, and it’s reaching crisis point.
- Ben Lawrence
The ‘fortunate’ couple behind Australia’s most rarefied club celebrates 40 years
Since founding their Sydney gallery, Roslyn and Tony Oxley have shaped the country’s art scene – to controversy and acclaim. They have no intention of stopping.
- Stephen Todd
January
The surprising hobby that helps Toys R Us’ CEO shut off
High on Penny Cox’s to-do list as she returns to Melbourne to take charge of the struggling Australian toy company is finding a choir.
- Lisa Murray
Artist Ann Thomson, 90, celebrated in her ‘butterfly moment’
The feisty Australian painter’s lifelong dedication to making art will be celebrated in Sydney on Saturday night.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
December 2023
- Opinion
- Review
Here are 11 of the best albums of 2023
This year’s best music features songs to make you think, laugh and dance, plus something special from one of our own.
- James Thomson and Alex Gow
See inside Michelangelo’s ‘secret’ Florence room
In 1530, when the Medici family returned to power in the city, the artist went into hiding. He spent his days drawing on the walls of his tiny refuge, and you can now view the artworks for yourself.
- Josephine McKenna
How Rachel Ward went from Vogue cover model to farmhand at 60
The actor and director has had an unexpected second act as a farmer. A new documentary follows her “bloody crusade”.
- Lauren Sams
Oh, what a knight. Art boss feted by the French
Director of the National Gallery of Victoria Tony Ellwood has been awarded the medal of Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (Knight of Arts and Letters).
- Patrick Durkin
What is ‘rizz’ - and do you have it?
The Oxford University Press word of the year for 2023 was first coined on social media - and actor Tom Holland admits he’s got no rizz.
- Melissa Twigg