Across town there’s another show of paintings that could loosely be described as “conceptual” – if such a term means much anymore – but where an artist like John Young eschews any expressionist inferences in his work, Noel McKenna embraces

Last week we were asked if it were true that the Art Gallery of NSW was closing down the Level 2 Contemporary Projects space after the end of the current James Angus truck installation. We promised we would ask someone

New NGA Chief Hailed by Dubbo Liberal The appointment of the head of the Art Gallery of South Australia Ron Radford to the directorship of the National Gallery of Australia last week has been hailed by Helen Musa of the

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We proclaim it from the mountaintop: painting is dead! Yet painting is still alive, or just a little bit alive on life support, or undead. There are people in galleries all over town bitterly complaining that painting is ignored and

Across the Domain from the State Library is the Art Gallery of NSW. How lovely it looks on a busy Wednesday lunchtime and how even more lovely to go inside to look at some celestial silks! How marvelous! How silky!

They do things differently in Norway. After two paintings by Edvard Munch were stolen by thieves in a ‘brazen’ walk in, walk out ‘raid’, it was revealed that neither The Scream nor Madonna was insured against theft. As Agence France

One of the perpetual stories of the Sydney media is the vexing question of why Ken Done doesn’t get respect. It’s a story that comes around every few years and it always posits the same argument – here’s a guy