Ai Weiwei's new Sydney installation 'Mushrooms' places 500 cast-iron combat helmets against the calm of Sydney Harbour. As the artist declares that "real art questions the existing order", the work raises a harder question about political art today.
Melbourne artist Jas Shalimar makes watercolours from a thousand fast decisions. Ahead of The Private Theatre at Mars Gallery (twelve self-portraits, one for each of Jung's archetypes) she talks of Beatrix Potter, an Arnott's chair hung from the ceiling, and trying on versions of herself.
In Venice, 'Tide of Returns' follows the remarkable journey of Indigenous Australian shell dolls to consider what repatriation means after cultural objects finally come home.
As the UK marks 25 years of universal free museum entry, the policy has proved its value beyond rising visitor numbers. It has established access to art, history, and culture as part of public education, open to anyone who walks through the door.
After a two-year boycott over the Brisbane Portrait Prize's acceptance of generative AI, several artists have returned in 2026, using portraiture, cultural knowledge, and ancestral integrity to contest the policy from inside the exhibition.
MoMA's 'Architects of Liberation' traces how modern architecture became entwined with independence, national identity, and political ambition across West Africa.
Jingwen He's new sculpture draws on Ballarat's Chinese history and the tradition of Southern Chinese flower lanterns to explore migration, belonging, and the many lives that shape a city.
New York's School of Visual Arts will close its photography MFA after 40 years. Financial pressures explain the immediate decision, but AI is changing the value of photography and what it means to teach it.
Unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square, this vibrant bronze sculpture of a Black 'everywoman' has ignited fierce global debates on body image and representation.
Tandanya, Tutti Arts and Nature Festival brings artists, researchers, and cultural knowledge together for 'Silent Country', an exhibition confronting the spread of buffel grass and the landscapes being changed by it.
Two decades after it was first announced, Guggenheim Au Dhabi will open this December, bringing enormous cultural ambition and a complicated history to Saadiyat Island.
ACCA revives its influential NEW exhibition series after a ten-year break, bringing together seven emerging artists whose practices reflect the changing course of Australian contemporary art.
Richard Lewer's 'Steve' begins a national tour, transforming one family's experience of dementia into a moving study of memory, love, and the ordinary moments that make up a life.
Yayoi Kusama's polka dots and Infinity Rooms made her a global phenomenon, but behind the spectacle lies a radical exploration of self-obliteration, mental health, and our fascination with seeing ourselves reflected back.
The Gwangju Biennale's Taiwan Pavilion dispute has exposed tensions between artistic freedom, institutional responsibility, and international diplomacy, raising concerns over how cultural institutions navigate political pressure.
Melbourne photographer Guy Little, 41 years in, shoots Hasselblad and 5x4 film and still does his own darkroom work. From AFP forensic photographer to copyright-law campaigner to minimalist award winner, his meditative series Photography's Shadow turns childhood trauma into quiet, unhurried art.
