Today
The hidden history of Magic Eye pictures
Thirty years ago, a book of bizarre images took the world by storm.
- Tom Nicholson
This Month
See inside Michelangelo’s ‘secret’ Florence room
In 1530, when the Medici family returned to power in the city, the artist went into hiding. He spent his days drawing on the walls of his tiny refuge, and you can now view the artworks for yourself.
- Josephine McKenna
David Rowe cartoons for December 2023
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for December 2023 here.
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- David Rowe
To be a winning artist, a little humour helps
It’s a philosophy that has worked for the most successful artist duo in the world. Now, the National Gallery of Victoria has acquired four of their installations.
- John McDonald
David Rowe cartoons for November 2023
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for November 2023 here.
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- David Rowe
What robot dogs, Yoko Ono and a $1m potato reveal about humanity
The theme of artificial intelligence and its impact on art and society runs deeply through the NGV’s Triennial exhibition opening this weekend.
- Patrick Durkin
Christmas gifts for the 1pc
Stuck for a gift for someone who seems to have everything? Don’t hold back.
- Eugenie Kelly
November
Why you need to be in the room at auctions
How would-be buyers missed their chance to purchase works at Deutscher and Hackett’s final sale of the year when they failed to hear their phones.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
- Christmas Gift Guide 2023
- Life & Leisure
You can’t go wrong with these beautiful books for time-poor people
We’ve selected 14 image-driven options in which the pictures do the talking.
- Stephen Clark
What might a huge red pumpkin be doing at a Victorian winery?
It’s one of the new installations at Pt. Leo Estate Sculpture Park: a signature work by renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. And there’s more, too.
- Paul Best
‘iPhone of the 19th century’: how an old curio inspires design today
What had people obsessed and bumping into walls in the 1800s? The kaleidoscope, says a British designer whose work will be on show at the NGV Triennial.
- Stephen Todd
Work that survived ride on roof of Mini Moke could sell for $800,000
Artist Brett Whiteley delivered his paintings personally, says the man who first sold the painting 43 years ago.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Catch the 19th century’s most unseemly painting, showing at The Met
Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” – now on display in New York – is hardly shocking today. But it both outraged and revitalised the world of art in 1865: the Paris Salon even had to hire armed guards.
- Jason Farago
The lawyer who quit and became a famous artist
The under-fire AGNSW’s exhibition of Vasily Kandinsky’s abstracts should put art back into conversations about the gallery.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Prepare to be transported to a parallel universe
“We are exploring what it is to be a forest, an insect,” says the co-founder of a London virtual reality studio about its upcoming Melbourne show.
- Jane Cornwell
The hot new thing in social media is here. Again
Lapse photo app has shot to No. 2 in the US on the Apple App Store’s free chart but will it last?
- Madison Malone Kircher
October
Sculpture by the Sea is here – and the prices its artworks fetch
This year is the outdoor art show’s 25th appearance on the Sydney shore. Founder David Handley is still thrilled to be staging the event.
- Theo Chapman
‘Wake ’em up!’ This legendary artist is coming to Melbourne
Textile creator Sheila Hicks is bringing a giant blue-hued installation Down Under for the NGV Triennial.
- John McDonald
David Rowe cartoons for October 2023
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for October 2023 here.
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- David Rowe
