The billionaire mining magnate loves litigation. Litigation does not love him back.
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.
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.
Lee's $14 million dollar sculpture will be unveiled on October 25. CREDIT:National Gallery of Australia
Documents released under freedom-of-information laws reveal Australia’s richest person appealed directly to the National Gallery’s chair Ryan Stokes.
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.
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.
New documents revealing how Gina Rinehart sought to influence the National Gallery of Australia should ring alarm bells.
Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.
Call it charisma,presence or personal magnetism. Paul Gauguin had it in abundance.