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Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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The 2026 Adelaide Biennial, titled Yield Strength, requires slow looking and quiet consideration

These are troubled and changing times – a view of the zeitgeist that permeates Yield Strength, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

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A decade of Tarnanthi: how a festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art creates a new national art history

The Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art began in 2015. The title of the exhibition celebrating Tarnanthi a decade on, Too Deadly, underscores the level of excellence Tarnanthi has achieved in terms of the sheer number of artists involved, new work commissioned and its reach to…

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Tarnanthi turns 10: how a small South Australian festival became a super-sized champion of First Nations art

This year’s edition, a statewide juggernaut spanning more than 30 exhibitions and events and a major show at the Art Gallery of South Australia, celebrates the past and present while looking to the future

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Jack Ball wins the Ramsay Art Prize among a who’s who of Australian young contemporary artists

Jack Ball, a Sydney-based trans artist, was awarded the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia for an immersive installation Heavy Grit.

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Never-before-seen Margaret Preston artworks go on show

Paintings by Margaret Preston that have never been on show to the public before feature in an exhibition of Australian women artists.

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The ‘dangerous’ Australian women whose art was dismissed, forgotten – and even set on fire

A new exhibition celebrates 50 globetrotting women who traded parochial Australia for European modernity to create ‘subtly subversive’ art

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Landmark arts policy woos blockbuster shows down south

A ten-year cultural strategy will bring blockbuster shows to the Art Gallery of South Australia and an extra $80 million in funding for the state's arts sector.

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Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles

From union banners to sewn sculptures, a major new exhibition in Adelaide celebrates the emotional and revolutionary force of textiles

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Solace on offer within the sanctum of Adelaide Biennial

The Adelaide Biennial: Inner Sanctum features the work of 24 leading Australian contemporary artists at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Adelaide Biennale 2024: light takes centre stage in ‘tender’ survey of Australian art

Instead of leaning into the political, the exhibition of 24 artists is a gentle invitation to look at ourselves – and the world – anew

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Vincent Namatjira’s paintbrush is his weapon. With an infectious energy and wry humour, nothing is off limits

Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.

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Deadly sins masterpiece goes on show in Adelaide

The Art Gallery of South Australia has acquired a three-metre high painting by British artist Chris Ofili from his series The Seven Deadly Sins.

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Power and strength: Vincent Namatjira paintings on show

A major survey of the work of Vincent Namatjira is opening at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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‘I see myself as a royal’: artist Vincent Namatjira on colonialism, satire and his great-grandfather’s legacy

The Archibald-winning portraitist and descendant of Albert Namatjira explains why he wields his paintbrush like a weapon – and always has the last laugh

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Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution is insightful and beautiful; a reminder of how Anglo-American our conception of modern art is

Frida Kahlo devotees, this is your show. There are her paintings aplenty, photographs of her by Imogen Cunningham through to Edward Weston, and film imagery of Kahlo and Rivera as the happy couple.

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Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution exhibition – a glimpse of Kahlo’s true genius

This beautiful show is packed with works by Kahlo, Rivera and their Mexican contemporaries – but it is missing the darker side of her life story

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Milton Moon: the Australian artist who brought a Zen Buddhist, modernist and painterly sensibility to pottery

Milton Moon (1926-2019) was not your regular potter. He was deeply imbued with Zen Buddhism and once said each vessel is a container for thoughts, “a fundamental expression of life’s forces”.

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Artist wins $100k Ramsay Prize with submersion video

Performance artist Ida Sophia has taken out the $100,000 Ramsay Prize for young artists with her video examining the ritual of baptism.

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Artist dunked in freezing water wins Ramsay Prize

Performance artist Ida Sophia has taken out the $100,000 Ramsay Prize for young artists with her video examining the ritual of baptism.

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