This Month
David Rowe cartoons for August 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
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- David Rowe
Art Gallery of NSW welcomes ‘exceptional’ Indigenous art bequest
Former New Zealand media baron Michael Horton has fulfilled the wish that he and his late wife Dame Rosie Horton committed themselves to before her death last year.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
- Opinion
- Opinion
Too many children are being encouraged to follow their dreams
If history has taught us anything, it’s that there are no risks to a young artist giving up on their dreams.
- Ed Cumming
James Wolfensohn’s Australian classics lead $14m art sale
The canvases by Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams adorned the Australian former president of the World Bank’s Manhattan apartment and lead Smith & Singer’s big mid-year sale.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
July
An $8.2m result affirms Ron Walker and Denis Savill’s taste in art
Just 28 works owned by two men who spent decades doing deals delivered one of the best auction results of the year.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
David Rowe cartoons for July 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
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- David Rowe
Diary alert: shows to catch in August
From didgeridoo at dawn to Renaissance treasures and a milestone collaboration, next month is packed with inspiring arts events.
- Michael Bailey
Vale Terry Ingram, and a life observing in the Saleroom
Saleroom’s founding columnist spent 44 years reporting stories the industry wanted to keep quiet, including the art sale story of the century on Blue Poles.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
This Perth artist is about to be showcased at Design Miami
Olive Gill-Hille will exhibit her timber sculptures at the highly influential event in December.
- Michael Bleby
MONA has a new home for its Picassos: The women’s toilet
MONA is appealing a ruling that closed down its Ladies Lounge after finding it was discriminatory to men.
- Rachel Pannett
Shows you must see for NAIDOC Week
From a trans-Tasman tour de force for Bangarra Dance Theatre, to a Vincent Namatjira retrospective featuring ‘that’ portrait of Gina Rinehart, there are plenty of shows to get you into the spirit of the week.
- Michael Bailey
June
David Rowe cartoons for June 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
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- David Rowe
Seven shows you must see in July
From Dracula to Hamilton, to a gallery tour led by a cat – yes, a cat – here is Life & Leisure’s monthly selection of unmissable shows around the country.
- Michael Bailey
Why Ancient Egypt is flavour of the year
If you missed out on the Ramses exhibition in Sydney, there are two more shows you can catch.
- Theo Chapman
Do view this at home: How the video art market works
Gone are the days when you needed a gallery-sized space to view digital art.
- Rachael Bolton
Far from being cancelled, Gauguin is getting a major exhibition
Regardless of the circumstances of their creation, the 130-plus artworks in the NGA’s winter blockbuster are imbued with the magical energy of Polynesia.
- Dan F Stapleton
Inside the world of art nouveau visionary who defied nazis, communists
A new Alphonse Mucha exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW will give Australians their first meaningful exposure to a giant of Czech culture.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
May
Shows you don’t want to miss in June
From the original ‘Evita’ to Coppélia set in the Adelaide Hills, here’s our pick of the top performances and exhibitions around Australia.
- Michael Bailey
How this spiky sculpture got the fashion world swooning
Among those stopped in their tracks by Mexican ceramicist Andrés Anza’s indefinable work was Pharrell Williams. But, in the end, it’s nothing, says the winner of the Loewe Craft Prize.
- Divya Bala
Lessons in legacy-building from history’s most tenacious rulers
The NGV’s winter blockbuster will take a deep dive into what it meant to be pharaoh – and the complex power systems they needed to maintain their supremacy.
- John McDonald
