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Whiteley Byron Bay masterpiece under the hammer for $1m

A Brett Whiteley painting of the Byron Bay landscape has sold for $1 million - but will it end up on the walls of a Byron Bay rich-lister?

AAP · Nov 25, 2025

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that the art world had systematically excluded and erased them from history.

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2025

Modernism from Cezanne to Australia in NGA blockbuster

Rarely seen modernist masterpieces by the likes of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso have come to Australia from Berlin's Museum Berggruen.

AAP · May 29, 2025