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Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

The Conversation · Jul 20

The 2026 Adelaide Biennial, titled Yield Strength, requires slow looking and quiet consideration

These are troubled and changing times – a view of the zeitgeist that permeates Yield Strength, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

The Conversation · Mar 3

A decade of Tarnanthi: how a festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art creates a new national art history

The Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art began in 2015. The title of the exhibition celebrating Tarnanthi a decade on, Too Deadly, underscores the level of excellence Tarnanthi has achieved in terms of the sheer number of artists involved, new work commissioned and its reach to…

The Conversation · Oct 22, 2025

Australia’s first Art Grand Tour unites three biennials in a city-hopping trail

Australia’s Art Grand Tour showcases more than 400 artists, across Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in a build-your-own art adventure

Wallpaper · Mar 3, 2024

Vincent Namatjira’s paintbrush is his weapon. With an infectious energy and wry humour, nothing is off limits

Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.

The Conversation · Nov 24, 2023

Deadly sins masterpiece goes on show in Adelaide

The Art Gallery of South Australia has acquired a three-metre high painting by British artist Chris Ofili from his series The Seven Deadly Sins.

AAP · Nov 22, 2023

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution is insightful and beautiful; a reminder of how Anglo-American our conception of modern art is

Frida Kahlo devotees, this is your show. There are her paintings aplenty, photographs of her by Imogen Cunningham through to Edward Weston, and film imagery of Kahlo and Rivera as the happy couple.

The Conversation · Jul 7, 2023

Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution exhibition – a glimpse of Kahlo’s true genius

This beautiful show is packed with works by Kahlo, Rivera and their Mexican contemporaries – but it is missing the darker side of her life story

The Guardian - AU · Jun 26, 2023

Polaroids of the everyday and portraits of the rich and famous: you should know the compulsive photography of Andy Warhol

Review: Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media, Art Gallery of South Australia.

The Conversation · Mar 7, 2023

Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia uses photographs to show the artist through a new lens

A new exhibition of snaps and portraits by Warhol and his peers reveals a lesser-known but influential aspect of his practice — and a different side of the man himself.

ABC News · Mar 3, 2023