Ipswich Art Gallery to showcase $116m Rothko painting from National Collection

Ipswich Art Gallery to showcase $116m Rothko painting from National Collection

The painting is on loan for two years from the National Gallery of Australia as part of a program designed to bring visitors to regional galleries.

  • byNick Dent

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First look inside the 13-tonne,$14 million artwork coming to the National Gallery

First look inside the 13-tonne,$14 million artwork coming to the National Gallery

A $60m revitalisation of the National Gallery of Australia will circle the building in gardens. Pride of place will be Lindy Lee’s massive Ouroboros.

  • byJulie Power
Ouroboros by Lindy Lee
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Ouroboros by Lindy Lee

Lee's $14 million dollar sculpture will be unveiled on October 25. CREDIT:National Gallery of Australia

Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits
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Rinehart asked National Gallery to ‘permanently dispose’ of portraits

Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal Australia’s richest person appealed directly to the National Gallery’s chair Ryan Stokes.

  • byLinda Morris andEryk Bagshaw
A dunny. A yabby. A puffer jacket … Sculptor Alex Seton’s making his mark – in marble

A dunny. A yabby. A puffer jacket … Sculptor Alex Seton’s making his mark – in marble

Australian artist Alex Seton made his name turning the mundane into the poetic. Now he’s off to the traditional home of marble sculpting:Italy.

  • byGabriella Coslovich
What links a dead paedophile painter with Paris 2024? Shame

What links a dead paedophile painter with Paris 2024? Shame

As Paris holds the world’s gaze,France’s continued meddling in the Pacific paints a less-than-golden picture of colonial neglect and the price of imperialism.

  • byMalcolm Knox
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Our National Gallery must continue to stand up to Gina Rinehart
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Our National Gallery must continue to stand up to Gina Rinehart

New documents revealing how Gina Rinehart sought to influence the National Gallery of Australia should ring alarm bells.

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Inside the campaign to take down Gina Rinehart’s portraits
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Inside the campaign to take down Gina Rinehart’s portraits

Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.

  • byLinda Morris andEryk Bagshaw
Master or monster:The artist equally loathed and revered
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Master or monster:The artist equally loathed and revered

Call it charisma,presence or personal magnetism. Paul Gauguin had it in abundance.

  • byJohn McDonald
Police escorts,angry drivers:Australia’s most expensive art commission has arrived

Police escorts,angry drivers:Australia’s most expensive art commission has arrived

An immersive,public sculpture by Australian artist Lindy Lee has arrived at the National Gallery of Australia,after its epic journey from Brisbane on the back of a truck.

  • byLinda Morris
Two of Australia’s great artists lead exhibition full of echoes

Two of Australia’s great artists lead exhibition full of echoes

Cutting Through Time explores affinities between Cressida Campbell,Margaret Preston,and Japanese printmakers.

  • byJohn McDonald