Visual Art

Spilling across the city, the 10th Ballarat International Foto Biennale offers a panoramic view of the state of the art.

Before the Australian premiere of his latest work, Sibyl, at the Sydney Opera House, animator, director and visual artist William Kentridge reveals that the moment when a work begins to catch fire is always mysterious.

Showing at the National Gallery of Australia, Nan Goldin’s extraordinary magnum opus, The ballad of sexual dependency, defines an era.

The story created by Tracey Moffatt’s powerful photographic series Body Remembers resonates in the life and work of dancer and choreographer Frances Rings.

Michael Zavros’s hyperreal depictions of his family and luxurious lifestyle often annoy critics but, as a retrospective demonstrates, they have an unexpected life.

The ‘perpetual revolution’ of Mexican Modernist art is on full display at the Art Gallery of  South Australia, including the mischief, joy and pain of Frida Kahlo’s iconic work.

Pierre Bonnard’s mastery of colour and light is on full display in NGV International’s extraordinary winter exhibition.

The exhibition Maternal inheritances expands the notion of motherhood to encompass complex ideas of kinship, knowledge and caregiving.

A brilliantly curated Rising festival exhibition sets 15 illuminating works by First Nations artists amid the crumbling grandeur of Flinders Street Station’s hidden spaces.

In the exhibition nightshifts, Buxton Contemporary offers a space to recover the experience of art from the crushing visibility of the spectacle.