Books & Arts
27 March 2024
Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter
Books & Arts
6 December 2023
The Archibalds win a convert on the NSW south coast
Books & Arts
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & Arts
1 February 2023
The Gija Dictionary opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley
Essays & Reportage
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Books & Arts
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
Essays & Reportage
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
From the archive
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
Books & Arts
24 June 2021
It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
Books & Arts
17 May 2021
One man’s unspoken Dunera story lies behind an exhibition in rural Victoria
From the archive
1 May 2021
In search of the artist behind the Art Gallery of South Australia’s widely praised exhibition
Books & Arts
12 April 2021
It’s time for a new conversation about Australian impressionism
Books & Arts
9 February 2021
Music | Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & Arts
16 July 2020
Books | An immigrant lithographer left a dazzling trove of commercial art
Books & Arts
7 June 2019
Profile | A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
From the archive
3 April 2019
Having grown up sheltered from the winds of modernism, painter Nora Heysen took a fresh turn in 1930s London
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Books & Arts
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
Essays & Reportage
20 January 2019
Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
Books & Arts
23 December 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Essays & Reportage
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Books & Arts
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
Essays & Reportage
19 January 2017
My unexpected lunch with James Fairfax, once heir to the media empire
Books & Arts
22 September 2016
Fascinated by cities, Chinese artist and documentary-maker Cao Fei constantly returns to urban landscapes
International
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes Linda Jaivin. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
Essays & Reportage
2 June 2015
Jon Altman has been visiting the remote Aboriginal community of Maningrida for many years. In February, he talked to Kuninjku people about the impact of…
Books & Arts
19 May 2015
Books | Martin Edmond’s dual biography of Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira illuminates a remarkable friendship, writes Eleanor Hogan
Books & Arts
18 March 2014
The continuing popularity of tattoos is a paradox, writes Richard Johnstone. Which other fashion refuses to acknowledge a use-by date?
Books & Arts
22 August 2013
Despite the global financial crisis and high-profile scandals, money continues to flow at the highest end of the art auction market. Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at why