Culture
Art & design
How the wealth transfer from Boomers to their children will shake up the art market
Artworks held in private collections for decades are about to hit the market – and that will create huge change.
- by Linda Morris
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In a first, the city’s biggest cultural institutions are run by women
The six leaders of the state’s major galleries and museums discuss budgets, changing audiences and what they would give for 10 minutes alone with a billionaire.
- by Linda Morris
‘Lazy place tax’ push to turn empty buildings into creative hubs
Sydney is rapidly losing its creative people and places – but a bold new proposal could stop the flow.
- by Linda Morris
‘Defiantly beautiful’ image of First Nations youth challenges us all
Hoda Afshar’s winning entry in the National Photographic Portrait Prize is a powerful statement on controversial laws.
- by Nick Galvin
Imagine your house under water. This VR film takes us inside the flood
The World Came Flooding In brings three personal stories of climate calamity to life.
- by Simmone Howell
This master filmmaker realised his work was meaningless. So he made more art
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s pandemic revelation has come to life as an installation at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
- by Garry Maddox
Dozens of jobs to go as Art Gallery of NSW faces budget crisis
The gallery has announced job cuts to save it more than $7 million.
- by Linda Morris
The discarded outback road signs that became a prize-winning artwork
North-East Arnhem Land artist Gaypalani Wanambi has won the prestigious National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- by Helen Pitt
The dissident award-winning artist keeping a close watch on China
Badiucao has won a Walkley Award for his political cartoons, but his critical gaze is cast far and wide.
- by Elizabeth Flux
A new, larger than life teaspoon sculpture lands on Sydney Harbour
The Museum of Contemporary Art has unveiled a mind-bending art installation – and a $2 million operating deficit in the same week.
- by Linda Morris
These daring artists shocked the world. A new show reveals why
Max Dupain and Man Ray are united for the first time in an exploration of provocation, beauty and the body.
- by Kerrie O'Brien