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Everyone will want to see Yayoi Kusama at the NGV. Those who don’t will spend a lifetime regretting it

Now aged 95, Yayoi Kusama for many decades has been considered one of the most influential contemporary artists. She works across a wide range of art forms, including sculpture and installations, painting, graphic arts, fashion, video art, performance and writing.

The Conversation · Dec 16, 2024

Artists join scientists at sea to unveil mysteries of marine life

A Paris exhibition invites visitors to dive into the ocean and explore the intersecting perspectives of artists and scientists who, for 20 years, have studied and documented marine life and the challenges it faces.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 15, 2024

Surrealism as feminist resistance: artists against fascism in Leeds

‘The Traumatic Surreal’ at the Henry Moore Institute, unpacks the generational trauma left by Nazism for postwar women

Wallpaper · Dec 15, 2024

Earning half the minimum wage: new report reveals pressures on artists to sustain creative life

Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of…

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2024

Sculptor James Cherry’s always playful and sometimes strange lamps set New York's Tiwa Gallery aglow

‘It was simultaneously extremely isolating and so refreshing’: Los Angeles-based sculptor James Cherry on brainstorming ‘From Pollen’ at New York’s Tiwa Gallery

Wallpaper · Dec 13, 2024

Step into an infinite polka dot universe at Kusama show

Yayoi Kusama offers an experience of infinity at her National Gallery of Victoria retrospective, which is the biggest ever show of her work in Australia.

AAP · Dec 13, 2024

Louise Bonnet’s falling figures depict an emotional narrative to be felt rather than told

Louise Bonnet’s solo exhibition 'Reversal of Fortune' at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, nods to historical art references and the fragility of the human condition

Wallpaper · Dec 13, 2024

The work of Chinese artist Cao Fei explores our brave new human condition in a technological world

Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the senses.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2024

My long-distance partner is moving in with me, but I have trepidation. How can I be at peace with it?

‘Going off’ someone isn’t the same as realising they’re taking more than you want to give, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2024

Jenny Packham's guide to Amsterdam: the Pulitzer hotel & the vintage treasure trove she loves

The fashion designer on why the Netherlands capital is at its most magical in winter — and where to get lost in the chic Nine Streets neighbourhood

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024