Arts & Culture
Bessie Davidson & Sally Smart: Two artists and the Parisian avant-garde
The show features a significant collection of still life, interior, landscape and portrait paintings by Bessie Davidson alongside a newly commissioned video work by the artist’s great-niece, Sally Smart.
On the Bread and Circus of Isolation
Forced into our abodes, the kitchen has become the place of comfort, sustenance and social peacocking. And bread, a symbol of thriving.
Mona Victory Gardens Competition
Once upon a time Mona, the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania had a lovely sprawling green lawn…
The Amazing Face, a free Masterclass in Portraiture
From April 28, audiences are invited to participate in The Amazing Face, a free 14-day online masterclass from the National Portrait Gallery designed to engage audiences in the principles and creation of portraiture
‘Wright Virtual Visits’ – the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Audiences are invited to view short videos, which will take them inside and around the treasured buildings from architect Frank Lloyd Wright with one new site featured every Thursday morning at 10am (AEST), during Covid-19 restrictions.
Spread Art Not Viruses — art in the age of COVID19
Social media is a must-have binding material for any community art project, to glue everything together – says Charlie Xiao
“We will remember them” ANZAC Day, 2020
Beginning at 5am on Saturday April 25 we are invited to tune in to ABC TV, ABC on Facebook, ABC’s YouTube Channel and local ABC Radio channels for a live streamed broadcast of the official Anzac Day Commemorative Service, which will take place at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra.
A time for kids to create!
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‘The Circus of Life’ by Peter Cole at Gippsland Art Gallery
Noted as a Gippsland Art Gallery permanent exhibition ‘The Circus of Life’ highlights the extraordinary work and unique artistic style of one Australia’s most prolific sculptors, Peter Cole.
‘Stiff Upper Lip’ by Cally Lotz at fortyfivedownstairs
Cally Lotz has become aware that still life painting can create a strange presence between what we call reality and what psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan calls ‘the real’. Ordinary objects can be shaped into profound statements on containment and trauma.
‘Story Tellers’ online at Flinders Lane Gallery
Online the ‘Story Tellers’ exhibition features a display 21 works with click-through links for an in-situ viewing experience of seeing the works hung on the gallery walls, a downloadable catalogue, and the show can also be explored by taking a virtual tour.
Book review: Absolute Humidity — Edited by Tess Maunder
‘Absolute Humidity’ uses weather as a device to unpack theories on transnational identities, ecological threats, migration, nationalism; providing a reflection of on artistic practices and subsequent impact of the weather in the Asia Pacific.
SCCI Fashion Hub Goes Virtual
After being halted by COVID-19, SCCI has reconfigured its landmark Fashion Hub symposium into a six-week virtual offering.
Love, Unmasked – A COVID-19 Art Auction
Over the first weekend in April, a charity art auction and online exhibition closed it’s bidding to support a COVID-19 emergency response by Bridging Hope Charity Foundation and Vermillion Art gallery in Sydney. The sales of the artwork are dedicated to helping UNICEF lessen the global impact of the epidemic, focusing on reducing human transmission and ensuring children get access to essential services.
Explore Aboriginal Art & Culture by virtual exhibition
Art galleries across the nation are transforming their bricks and mortar creative spaces into virtual theatres to bring art and exploration into our lives while we sit out the arduous task of social distancing and have a go at navigating a new world order.
Sullivan+Strumpf’s new Viewing Room presents artist Glenn Barkley
Sullivan+Strumpf have launched the first edition of their newly developed online Viewing Rooms with a digital presentation of the exhibition ‘What do the birds say?’ featuring a new body of work by Australian artist, writer and curator Glenn Barkley.
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN lights up in the virtual world
On 6 April, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney NIRIN is taking its powerful showcase of art from around the world to new heights with the launch of a virtual Biennale, a first for art biennales world-wide in response to the Covid-19 pandemic that is sweeping the world.
Prick up your ears, relax and listen… it’s Podcast time
These new circumstances give us time to listen and be inspired by the diverse stories and ideas of others. There are hundreds of Podcasts covering a multitude of interesting subjects from art, politics, comedy, science, music, parenting, teen life, kids books, true crime, fiction, stories on life…