There’s much more to Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros than the $14m price tag

There’s much more to Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros than the $14m price tag

There are far more generous and meaningful ways to discuss the NGA’s shiny new sculpture.

  • byAlex Burchmore

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Magritte’s sheer visual magic on show in AGNSW’s summer exhibition

Magritte’s sheer visual magic on show in AGNSW’s summer exhibition

The Belgian surrealist made money during World War II by selling Titian knock-offs to Nazi occupiers.

  • byJoanna Mendelssohn
What to see (and what to skip) at Sculpture by the Sea

What to see (and what to skip) at Sculpture by the Sea

There’s 100 artworks from 103 artists on display – if you can get past the golden gorilla testicles.

  • byRobert Moran
Hauntingly beautiful,Isaac Julien’s installation at the MCA is a must-see

Hauntingly beautiful,Isaac Julien’s installation at the MCA is a must-see

The extraordinary black-and-white five-screen film installation is unexpectedly healing.

  • byCherine Fahd
Line,space,repeat:The divine madness in this artist’s abstract patterns

Line,space,repeat:The divine madness in this artist’s abstract patterns

At 82,Australian abstract artist Lesley Dumbrell’s retrospective,Thrum,is long overdue.

  • byJohn McDonald
Take a trip through time in this stunning photo exhibition

Take a trip through time in this stunning photo exhibition

There’s deep complexity to the deceptively simple photos of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at the MCA.

  • byJohn McDonald
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At Australia’s richest landscape prize,art conquered politics

At Australia’s richest landscape prize,art conquered politics

This year’s $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize offered a range of ways of seeing our wildest terrain.

  • byJohn McDonald
Fish,family and friends:Young Archie winners on show

Fish,family and friends:Young Archie winners on show

This year’s winners,including Anh Do’s 14-year-old son Leon,painted siblings,parents and best friends.

Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time

Arthur Boyd’s renowned landscape paintings shown together for the first time

The artist’s suite of large-scale landscape paintings will be shown in the place they were made.

  • byJohn McDonald
A critic’s pick of the best and worst of the Archibald Prize portraits
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A critic’s pick of the best and worst of the Archibald Prize portraits

A handful of works stand out from a selection that seems to have been made for variety rather than quality.

  • byJohn McDonald
When was the last time a soap ad gave you spiritual pleasure?
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Visual art

When was the last time a soap ad gave you spiritual pleasure?

Alphonse Mucha made the bold claim that his posters turned the street in “open-air art exhibitions”.

  • byJohn McDonald