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Director of AGNSW in contract hiatus
The Art Gallery of NSW Board has delayed renewal of Director Michael Brand’s five-year contract for its full term.
Synchrotron unmasks Nolan's Ned Kelly
Is the face under Ned Kelly's mask the famous bushranger or the artist who painted it, Sidney Nolan?
Trump plans to cancel US arts endowment
President Trump's FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes the elimination of the US National Endowment for the Arts, which funds community…
10 artists who use water as their medium
Making a splash, these contemporary artists challenge the gallery’s white cube and create a conservator’s nightmare, but people love to…
10 glass artists you should know
From elegant minimalism to quirky fantasy worlds, the ancient medium of glass is continually reinventing itself.
Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
Yosl Bergner spent only 11 years of a long life in Australia but his understanding of the Indigenous tragedy made…
How millennials are changing the art market
A new report has found that the auction market is being usurped by millennials, with different spending and shopping habits.
Remembering the oft-quoted John Berger
The iconic British art critic John Berger died yesterday, leaving a legacy of quotable words and tributes from others.
10 words not to use this year
Some words just got overdone in 2016. It's time to let these overused terms lie fallow for a while, in…
George Michael gave us more than music
Pop star George Michael leaves a legacy of over 500 collected arts works, including Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Sarah Lucas…