Simon Mordant’s biggest gift of artwork is to an unexpected place
One ambitious regional gallery will be a surprise recipient when the veteran banker and wife Catriona gift more than 300 works from storage to world galleries.
The shows, concerts, exhibitions and festivals lighting up your July
A violin veteran as you’ve rarely seen him, Adelaide lit up and a dancey alternative to school holiday screentime: all the best shows around the nation this month.
A painting Alan Bond made in prison just sold at auction
The late fraudster’s lawyer put up a painting of the yacht Australia II and was expecting about $300, but it secured a lot more than that.
‘Blame the G7’: Indigenous art auction disappoints
Art Leven says buyers’ focus was on the leaders’ meeting and an Art Basel preview after even the star work by Emily Kame Kngwarreye failed to generate interest.
Meet Tony Ellwood, art’s blockbuster man
Say what you like about the director of the National Gallery Of Victoria – and plenty do – but he has attracted more Australians to art than anybody in history.
Auction houses embrace exhibitions to sell works
Joining the likes of Menzies, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, fine art auctioneer Smith & Singer says selling art in the manner of a gallery is an opportunity to showcase artists’ works in depth.
New York disappointment sharpens focus on next Indigenous art auction
Lacklustre results at Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art auction in the US last month have raised questions about the impact on prices at a Sydney sale next month.
May
Glass, beeswax, sand help take out Australia’s other $100k art prize
Jack Ball’s photography and sculpture installation, based on queer archives, has won the rich Ramsay Prize for artists aged under 40.
David Rowe cartoons for May 2025
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
A second chance to make a first impression at NGV’s winter blockbuster
After its first planned showing was derailed by the pandemic, a landmark collection of French impressionist masterworks is returning to Melbourne from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
The Aussie ‘messenger girls’ who changed art
Patronised and often ignored in their lifetimes, the female artists who travelled to pre-war Europe and brought modernism back home are being celebrated in a new exhibition.
Nude swim, anyone? The arts events to see in June
Winter means arts festivals, as Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney are transformed by packed programs – including a Mozart-level genius.
Monash Uni backflips on Sabsabi show as Muslim campuses speak out
The Melbourne institution’s Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur students were consulted as part of a broad process, which has seen the controversial artist’s exhibition reinstated.
Big New York Indigenous art sale fizzles
Sotheby’s banner Aboriginal art auction was hoped to be a springboard into the launch of a new Rockefeller gallery in the Met. It wasn’t.
It’s all about the jazz and memories for this creative artist
Provocative prize-winning artist CJ Hendry wants to go out with a negroni, a jazz band . . . and no readings.
