culture

Romy Ash Whether using toy-like puffins to explore the global financial crisis or woodcut typefaces to examine feminist theory, Emily Floyd’s art is grounded in deep thinking and subtle references.

Patrick Hartigan Two exhibitions of utopian abstraction enable comparison of pure ideological approaches with something gentler. The latter is more satisfying.

Patrick Hartigan Amid a deluge of data, land and lore tell a compelling story of the actual over the virtual world.

Patrick Hartigan An AGNSW exhibition of iconic nudes on loan from Tate Britain pays homage to our fascination with the human form.

Joyce Morgan It has been the training ground for some of Australia’s best-known artists but now the National Art School is on a knife edge as its interim administrator fights to secure its future.

Patrick Hartigan MONA’s On the Origin of Art features curation by a cognitive scientist, a professor of literature, a psychologist and an evolutionary neurobiologist.

Patrick Hartigan Edgar Degas’ early emphasis on the line in masterful renditions of nudes, dancers and horses gave way as his sight faltered, leading to his most interesting paintings.

Patrick Hartigan Nicholas Mangan explores the tension between capital and dwindling natural resources, and how they come together in the grim story of asylum seekers held on Nauru.

Patrick Hartigan Diane Arbus’s intimate portraits are the work of a transgressive artist seeking to portray the almost invisible human truth.