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'Not quite human': How AI features in the latest National Gallery exhibition

An AI-created monologue discusses the 'absurd human urge' to name typhoons and cyclones.

The Canberra Times · May 26, 2023

Painted Love – on the marriage market in Renaissance Europe

Although these portraits were something like dating profiles for aristocrats to woo across countries, staring back across the centuries they have an enigmatic privacy

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023

How a 'brain fart' became Skywhale: Archer returns to Canberra

The legendary cabaret star reflects on her many good times in Canberra.

The Canberra Times · May 26, 2023

National Gallery of Australia to halt promotion of Aboriginal art exhibition over authenticity concerns

Review under way to determine if Indigenous artists ‘exercised effective creative control over the creation of the paintings’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2023

NGA to stop promoting Indigenous exhibit after fraud allegations

The review will assess if Indigenous artists had "creative control" over the paintings.

The Canberra Times · Apr 26, 2023

Saint Francis of Assisi: who was the man behind the National Gallery’s new blockbuster exhibition?

The wildly popular saint should guarantee the museum a hit

Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2023

Arts Centre Collective denies accusation of interfering

The APY Art Centre Collective has denied accusations arts workers have overstepped their bounds in assisting artists for an upcoming National Gallery show.

AAP · Apr 11, 2023

Authorship of APY Lands artwork subject to independent review ahead of national exhibition

The National Gallery of Australia has launched an independent review into the origins of the First Nations artwork in its Ngura Pulka – Epic Country exhibition after questions were raised about the role of non-Indigenous studio assistants in the creation of the art.

ABC News · Apr 11, 2023

Federal budget to boost funds for cultural institutions

Nine key cultural institutions, including Old Parliament House and the National Gallery of Australia, will receive more than half a billion dollars in funding.

The New Daily · Apr 5, 2023

After Impressionism review: ‘incontestable masterpieces’ at the National Gallery

The story of the great changes that occurred in painting in late 19th and early 20th century France is “probably the most frequently told” in all art history, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. The period produced “some of the most genuinely popular art ever created”, giving us Cézanne, van Gogh,…

The Week · Mar 31, 2023