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An important funding call from Melbourne-based Memo Review. They are in urgent need for funding tand have launched an Australian Cultural Fund to support their independent arts criticism. Memo Review is one of the few […]
The Shepparton Art Museum announced this week that Director and CEO, Rebecca Coates, will be stepping down after six years in the role. During Dr Coates’ tenure, the Shepparton Art Museum collection has expanded significantly, […]
The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial will run from 26 March – 31 July 2022 Ceremony is testament that our culture has survived—not only over the many thousands of years but, particularly, the last couple […]
Spanning five floors, the new $50 million Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) designed by acclaimed architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall will be officially opened to the public. The new museum houses over 4,000 works and launches […]
Great news from the Paul Mellon Centre that their photographic archive has been made available as an open-access archive of more than 100,000 digitised photographs of British art and architecture is now available to search […]
Congratulations to Professor Helen Ennis, who had received the 2021 J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society. The award is presented in recognition of major achievement in the field of photographic criticism or […]
Earlier this week, the Art Gallery of NSW announced the winner of the Archibald Prize 2021 ANZ People’s Choice award: Julia Ciccarone’s self-portrait, The sea within. Painted at home during the 2020 Melbourne lockdown, Ciccarone depicts […]
Sad news from the Netherlands: leading Rembrandt scholar Ernst van der Wetering passed away on August 11 2021 in Amsterdam. Born in 1938, Van der Wetering trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The […]
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that it will return to the Indian government fourteen works of art with highly dubious provenance. These include thirteen objects connected to disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor and […]
Dr Simon Maidment has been appointed Associate Director, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne. Dr Maidment is currently Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). In his new role […]
