Culture
Art & design
‘Spider woman’ spins the intangible into artworks
Japanese-born artist Chiharu Shiota’s career-spanning survey The Soul Trembles is especially poignant.
- by Kylie Northover
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One of the most original artists of his generation, Colin Lanceley deserves his place in art history
The artist who died only seven years ago has been forgotten with obscene rapidity.
- by John McDonald
Want to peek inside Melbourne’s finest mansions and buildings? This is your chance
From mansions in Kew and Brighton, to religious buildings, this year’s Open Houses Melbourne also includes the unusual, the bizarre and the inbetween spaces.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
The major art fair that’s about more than just the paintings
The National Indigenous Art Fair returns to Sydney after a two-year hiatus.
- by Lenny Ann Low
Here to stay or will they go away? Either way, NFTs have transformed Australian art
In a world awash with acronyms, there’s one that has a particular power to make hackles rise, especially in the arts.
- by Gabriella Coslovich
These real-life Willy Wonkas are tinkering at the borders of taste
London-based experimental design company Bompas & Parr have a motto of “nothing is impossible”: they’re currently mixing up fruit-flavoured house paint.
- by Nick Miller
First glimpse at plans for Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo
Design guidelines now on public exhibition give the first glimpse at what planners may have in store for a renewal of the 2.4-hectare site, home of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences since 1988.
- by Linda Morris
Opinion
Republic debate
Ensign for the times: Forget the new flagpole, we need a new flag
Even NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet can’t explain why it costs $25 million to place a third flagpole atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge - so perhaps it is time we dropped the state flag altogether.
- by Helen Pitt
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Art
After everything was destroyed by floods, National Art School steps up for students
The NAS has donated a host of art materials and workshops to the young student artists of Lismore, months after their works were destroyed by floods.
- by Lenny Ann Low
The new Queensland buildings that ‘deliver with delight’
Creatively innovative buildings and their designers have been honoured at this year’s Queensland Architecture Awards.
- by Sean Parnell
‘Exceptional’: The whimsical self-portrait that won Australia’s newest portrait prize
Artist Jaq Grantford has scooped the $75,000 Darling Portrait Prize, the second time the National Portrait Gallery award has been handed out.
- by Nick Galvin