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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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These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that the art world had systematically excluded and erased them from history.

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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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AIDS, trauma – and joy: how artist Brent Harris captures the intensity of emotion beneath humour

Brent Harris’ retrospective exhibition Surrender and Catch traces his art over four decades. It is a visual and linguistic treat.

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Australia’s first Art Grand Tour unites three biennials in a city-hopping trail

Australia’s Art Grand Tour showcases more than 400 artists, across Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in a build-your-own art adventure

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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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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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Polaroids of the everyday and portraits of the rich and famous: you should know the compulsive photography of Andy Warhol

Review: Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media, Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia uses photographs to show the artist through a new lens

A new exhibition of snaps and portraits by Warhol and his peers reveals a lesser-known but influential aspect of his practice — and a different side of the man himself.

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Nalini Malani: ‘Trump and Bolsonaro are totally phallic people – but there are men inclined to feminist thought’

The 76-year-old Indian artist reflects on the sectarian violence and misogyny that has inspired her work, including the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl

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Blockbuster exhibits confirmed at Maitland

Maitland Regional Art Gallery has three major headline shows planned for 2023 among its extensive calendar of events. The Maitland gallery will show Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women) from March 4 through May 21, showcasing major contemporary works by celebrated women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. "These women…

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Why you should know the exciting experimental, political and feminist work of senior Indian artist Nalini Malani

Contemporary Indian artist Nalini Malani, born in 1946, is infinitely experimental.

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A new art world order

"The hang requires you to do the work, you're making the connections."

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Andy Warhol’s star-studded photographs: ‘You find out much more about him as a person’

A major exhibition of Warhol’s photography will open next year in Australia – a country the artist ‘couldn’t quite comprehend’

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In a cold July, Adelaide comes to life with art of light, sound and movement

On cold nights in July, Adelaide audiences are flocking to an extraordinary festival of light and sound.

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How Japanese avant-garde ceramicists have tested the limits of clay

Review: Pure Form, Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Art Gallery of South Australia’s Adelaide Biennial exhibition interrogates South Australia’s history of slavery, environmental degradation

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art invited 25 artists to reflect on ideas of freedom, the state, and states of being - and the resulting works sometimes hit close to home.

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The 2022 Adelaide Biennial is titled Free/State. It explores freedom, the state and the spaces in between

Review: 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, Art Gallery of South Australia

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Australian art has lost two of its greats. Vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh

In the past ten days Australia has lost two important artworld figures. Both were senior artists working in Adelaide but with a reach extending far beyond the city or the nation.

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