Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light Exhibition is opening at NGV this month!
From Melbourne to Tokyo, Paris to Buenos Aires, the exhibition showcases the works of trailblazing artists such as Berenice Abbott, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Imogen Cunningham, Mikki Ferrill, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Ponch Hawkes, Annemarie Heinrich, Ruth Hollick, Florence Henri, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Toyoko Tokiwa, Yamazawa Eiko and many more.
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The exhibition reflects a recent collecting focus on ...
Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends Exhibition is now open at the Queensland Museum!
From ancient ‘supercrocs’ that once roamed with dinosaurs to the unique crocodile species living across the world today, Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends explores the science, culture and enduring connections between people and these remarkable creatures.
Crocodiles survived the dinosaurs, evolved and made their mark on culture, fascinating humans from early First Nations’ stories to Hollywood blockbusters of today. Where does the legend and the myth meet reality?
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Olafur Eliasson Presence Exhibition is coming to GOMA!
This Brisbane-exclusive exhibition draws from the three-decade career of one of the world's most influential living artists. Spanning the Gallery of Modern Art's (GOMA) ground floor galleries, the exhibition will include important early works and expansive site-specific installations, many never before seen in Australia.
From the magical early work Beauty 1993, which suspends a rainbow in a veil of mist, to Pluriverse assembly 2021, a spatial installation that unfurls ever-changing ...
Charles Burnett L.A. Rebel Retrospective is coming to GOMA!
Born in Mississippi, Burnett moved to the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles as a child. During his college years, he became a leading figure of the 'L.A. Rebellion,' a group of filmmakers that first emerged from UCLA in the late 1960s. This loose collective worked together to create an alternative to Hollywood fantasy, with filmmaking that drew on cinéma vérité and Italian neorealism to capture the rhythms and details of contemporary Black life.
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Burnett's ...
Game Worlds is now open at ACMI!
Spanning over 50 years of play, Game Worlds features more than 30 videogames from the 1970s to today, with 44 playable moments, original builds, rare design materials and hands-on prototypes you won’t find anywhere else.
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Discover four new microgames made exclusively for ACMI by Australian developers – from nostalgic dial-ins to playful perspective shifts.
Don't miss limited-edition Game Worlds merchandise, available only at ACMI, featuring collectibles from ...
Westwood | Kawakubo Exhibition is coming to NGV this December!
Beginning their careers in the 1970s working in different countries and cultural contexts, British-born Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022), and Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo (b.1942), introduced a rule-breaking radicalism to fashion by subverting the status quo. As self-taught, independent practitioners, Westwood and Kawakubo’s affinity lies in their uncompromising originality anchored in a desire for personal freedom, autonomy, and social and aesthetic change. Their unorthodox approaches ...
Under a Modern Sun – Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s is coming to QAG!
The display includes artworks by renowned Brisbane-based painters Vida Lahey and William Bustard and luminaries from the regions, including Kenneth Macqueen and Joe Rootsey. The exhibition explores connections between these artists and others — such as Sidney Nolan and Max Dupain — who travelled to Queensland to explore its histories and subject matter and, in doing so, contributed to the development of a modernist sensibility here.
The exhibition foregrounds the important role that ...
World Press Photo Exhibition 2025
This compelling exhibition presents the winning images from the 68th annual World Press Photo Contest, showcasing the most important and impactful photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year. An independent jury of 31 professionals from around the world—led by Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography at M, the magazine of Le Monde—selected the winners from 59,320 photographs submitted by 3,778 photographers across 141 countries.
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The selected ...
Kimono exhibition is now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria!
Explore traditional Noh and Kogen costume, intricately decorated kimono worn by samurai and merchants during the Edo period, early examples of Western influence in the styles of the late nineteenth-century, and Japanese modernist fashion from the early twentieth-century. Additionally, the exhibition features key pieces by fashion innovators Issey Miyake and John Galliano, contemporary creative Hiroko Takahashi and bold Harajuku street fashions.
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Alongside unique ...
Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema Children of Independence: The Rise of Central Asian Cinema
Emerging from years of Soviet Union rule, which heavily restricted what stories could be told, a new wave of filmmakers born after the declaration of independence in 1991 are leading the rise of films that unflinchingly have much to say about injustice, culture and tradition.
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Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema Children of Independence: The Rise of Central Asian Cinema
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A, Brisbane
12 February – 19 March 2025
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