Culture
Art & design
At Australia’s richest landscape prize, art conquered politics
This year’s $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize offered a range of ways of seeing our wildest terrain.
- by John McDonald
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How The Catcher in the Rye changed this artist’s vision
The survey show of more than 40 years of work by photo artist Anne Zahalka opens this month at the National Art School.
- by Helen Pitt
He first met the outside world at 21. Now he’s won one of Australia’s richest arts prizes
Pitjantjatjara painter Noli Rictor, from one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities, has won the 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- by Helen Pitt
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How plastic surgeon Terry Wu taught himself English, went to therapy and became an arts supremo
When Wu came to Australia aged 14, he couldn’t speak English – so he committed to learning 20 words a day. He knows the importance of diverse role models, especially in positions of cultural power.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Archibald People’s Choice awarded to portrait of Marcia Langton
Seven-time Archibald finalist Angus McDonald has won the People’s Choice award for the second time.
- by Helen Pitt
Meet the artist capturing what it really means to be a Melburnian
In his biggest exhibition yet, Rob McHaffie captures the quiet spirit of the everyday – and the title of each work is a short story of its own.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
The Shrine is turning 90. But should it have even been built?
It was the project that divided Melbourne and split the architectural community. A new exhibition reopens the city’s wartime wounds.
- by Ray Edgar
‘The city is suffering’: Festivals push for more music in historic Sydney park
Hit by cancellations and rising costs, festival organisers say the cap on concerts at Centennial Park should be lifted.
- by Linda Morris
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Arts
How this artist went from teenage graffiti to a retrospective at the NGV
Both playful and powerful, the work of the Western suburbs-raised artist digs into important and thorny issues.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Photography
Rare photos showing Sydney’s Cold War history go on display
A new exhibition of Max Dupain’s photos at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum shines a light on student life in the 1950s.
- by Helen Pitt