Visual Art

Daniel Boyd’s first major retrospective in an Australian gallery, Treasure Island, opens up multiple lenses on our history.

The art of Chiharu Shiota – now on show in a major survey in Brisbane – tackles ineffable questions about absence.

As the National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition reveals, Picasso believed that art was a kind of magic.

The power of works displayed at the 59th Venice Biennale has the male canon lying in smithereens.

Artist Susan Jacobs draws on the ephemeral and everyday to create meaning in a chaotic world.

Confined 13 demonstrates that the carceral state can’t crush the creative energy of Indigenous artists.

Helmut Newton pioneered the photography of fetishistic glamour, but he never disguised the artifice of seduction.

Since haunting galleries as a teenager, David Sequeira’s art has been driven by awe of human expressiveness.

Frances Barrett’s Meatus at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is a visceral experiment in exhibiting sound.

Filipino–Australian photographer James J. Robinson empowers his subjects – whether celebrated or unknown – with an aesthetic of excess.