Archive

Culture Clash
10 February 2004
Constantine Nicholas explores post-colonial issues in polynasia.

Ray of Light
29 January 2004
The upcoming survey of Man Ray's photography at the Art Gallery of NSW offers a rare insight into the Parisian avant-garde.

Law and Order
02 December 2003
The first major exhibition to investigate national outlaws across the world.

Fugitive II at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
09 January 2004
Simon Penny’s installation piece Fugitive II presents an interactive visual experience at the Australian Centre For The Moving Image in Melbourne’s Federation Square.

Witness: An Exhibition of Australian Photojournalism
21 January 2004
This exhibition showcases the recent work of ten Australian photojournalists.

Out of this world
09 December 2003
The weird and wonderful images of the Australian Surrealist movement.

Baroque Master
25 November 2003
The first exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere to explore the art of Caravaggio, his contemporaries and those who were influenced by his remarkable talent.

Glover sees the Light
25 November 2003
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery presents a major touring exhibition of the work of the Anglo-Australian painter John Glover.

Eugene O’Donnell - Behind the Lines
21 January 2004
The National Museum of Australia’s Political Cartooning Competition begins its national tour at the Queensland Museum this year.

Eugene O’Donnell - Behind the Lines
21 January 2004
The National Museum of Australia’s Political Cartooning Competition begins its national tour at the Queensland Museum this year.

Beauty Myths
10 February 2004
A new exhibition exploring ‘woman’ – in all of her guises.

Holiday Exhibitions
16 December 2003
Summer is the time to indulge your inner aesthete, as an array of fascinating exhibitions open across the country.

Art versus Sport
01 September 2000
How has sporting culture influenced our lives? This exhibition views the impact from some very diverse angles.

Powerhouse Masterpieces
01 September 2000
National treasures from three very different cultures come together at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum for three 'once in a lifetime' exhibitions.

What a Guy
09 December 2003
Campbelltown Art Gallery holds the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the work of Guy Warren.

Unlikely Hero
02 December 2003
Warren Allen, a 40-year-old man from the small town of Caroona in the New England region, is the unlikely recipient of the grand prize in the TAFE NSW Arts & Design Prize.

Horseplay
02 December 2003
Equestrian inspiration for Michael Zavros’ first Brisbane show in four years.

Hand-crafted success
25 November 2003
Adelaide’s Jam Factory celebrates the work of its creative directors and associates this month with the launch of the Biennial 2003.

Far and Away
18 November 2003
An exhibition exploring Australia’s complex social history.

Curtins up
18 November 2003
Emerging artists pushing boundaries and making a difference.

French Kiss
04 November 2003
An exhibition of outstanding French masterpieces, all visiting Australia for the first time.

Wooden Dreams
11 November 2003
Bugendore Wood Works Gallery celebrates its 20th year with a major exhibition of contemporary studio furniture.

Stars in their eyes
11 November 2003
Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett and Lleyton Hewitt visit Werribee Mansion.

Where the Hart is
14 October 2003
One of Australia’s most popular contemporary artists, on display at Monash Gallery of Art.

So long, farewell
14 October 2003
Bid farewell to the current University Art Museum site with a survey of a major Queensland artist.

Art on the Move
04 November 2003
Steve Back’s photographs hit the road for Mobile Sydney.

Goodbye Alice, Hello Dolly
23 September 2003
Leading Indigenous artist Dolly Petyarre Mills headlines Walkabout Art’s newest exhibition at Sofitel Melbourne.

Glad Rags
07 October 2003
The Auckland Museum is getting all dolled up for an exhibition exploring the history of the cocktail dress in New Zealand.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams
09 September 2003
Artist and album cover designer Roger Dean shares his love of rock ‘n’ roll at Sydney’s GIG Gallery.

Bushscapes
16 September 2003
Touring nationally, the first major survey exhibition in almost 20 years of the work of Western Australian artist Howard Taylor, opens at Sydney’s MCA.

Me and My (Art) Mob
21 October 2003
A group of talented female Alice Springs artists travel south to Tassie.

Art al fresco
30 September 2003
21 days of free exhibitions in the streets and public spaces of Sydney’s CBD.

Out of the War Zone
10 September 2003
After 40 years, Charles Page's photography remains as powerful as ever.

Prints Charming
12 August 2003
The Shell Fremantle Print Award celebrates its 28th birthday with a trip down memory lane.

Touching the Past
05 August 2003
An interactive, no-tech journey for kids into the past.

Eternal Souvenir
29 July 2003
A solitary souvenir in the form of a cushion cover tells the story of one Canberra soldier’s life in Soldier, Sister, Souvenir.

Boardroom Beauty
26 August 2003
Ever longed to see what lies behind the boardroom door? At least now you can see what hangs on the walls when Sublime: 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection comes to Heide.

Telling Stories
21 July 2003
Australia’s first major survey of historical and contemporary indigenous art from Cape York comes to Queensland Art Gallery.

All that glitters
14 July 2003
All that glitters at the Auckland Museum this winter is more than likely to be gold, as an exhibition of art and artifacts from one of the world’s great lost civilizations comes to visit.

Members’ Stand
19 August 2003
The Artists’ Society of Canberra launch their annual Members’ Art Exhibition, and prepare to announce the recipient of their third Annual Travel Scholarship.

Stormie Weather
05 August 2003
From graffiti artist to cult figure - Stormie Mills takes his expressive works to Perth’s Hudson Gallery in Nickel.

On Parr
14 July 2003
Showcasing 16 years of printmaking by Mike Parr and John Loane in Queensland.

Fabricating Tales
07 July 2003
Colourful textiles and vivid stories converge in an exhibition of Papua New Guinea’s most talented textile graduates of the 1980s.

Observing Bonnard
01 July 2003
Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature travels north to the Queensland Art Gallery this winter.

Aping the Art World
01 July 2003
From chimpanzees to the humble waiting room, the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition is all about the innovation and diversity of Australian sculpture.

Amendment
31 July 2003
State of the Arts would like to apologise for a misprint in our July edition.

Paper Trail
29 July 2003
The widest range of quality art works on paper, all under one roof at the Sydney Art on Paper Fair.

Style and Beauty in Brisvegas
23 June 2003
Prolific and avant garde Australian modernist Douglas Annand is the star of a travelling exhibition opening at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Turning Japanese
23 June 2003
Home decorating buffs will be re-arranging the furniture in anticipation for an exhibition of Japanese quilts, seen for the first time outside Japan, which begins an Australian tour this winter.

To have and to hold
14 July 2003
A rare chance to own a gem from Australia’s Modernist period, as a Perceval masterpiece goes on sale at Lawson~Menzies.

Cultural Convergence
23 June 2003
An unlikely meeting between opposing cultures in a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia, Aloma Treister’s Confluence.

Bohemian Rhapsody
04 June 2003
The Art Gallery of NSW hosts a comprehensive retrospective for one of the founding fathers of the Heidelberg school.

Monsoon Weather
02 June 2003
Inspiration or tribulation? How the brooding monsoonal weather of North Queensland affects the work of artists is the theme of an exhibition at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery.

Roving Rover
02 June 2003
An exhibition celebrating one of Australia’s great artists, Rover Thomas, begins its national tour at the Ian Potter Centre this week.

Celebrities take their pants off
26 May 2003
Ian Thorpe, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others have been taking their jeans off to support children’s medical research.

What are they putting in the water?
02 June 2003
When a population of not much more than a thousand can lay claim to creating some of the most interesting artwork in the world, it seems reasonable to ask: “What are they putting in the water?”

Well-known artist rocks
18 June 2003
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority announces winners of two major new art prizes.

Reforestation
26 May 2003
Brisbane artist A.J. Taylor’s rainforest landscapes are abstract ‘excavations’ of incredible images out of an aesthetic void.

Klip off the Old Block
04 June 2003
A unique exhibition of works by Australia’s most important sculptor, Robert Klippel, comes to Watters Gallery.

Mapping Spaces
26 May 2003
Tanya Hoddinott continues the journey begun in previous bodies of work with her exhibition Mapped.

I Remember 1948
20 May 2003
A diverse exhibition commemorating the Palestinian 'Al Nakba' ("The Catastrophe").

Outback and About
19 May 2003
Sidney Nolan’s iconic Ned Kelly series visits Central Australia.

Memory Lane
21 May 2003
One of Australia’s leading abstract artists, John Firth-Smith, exhibits his latest works in Sydney.

Saint Linde
12 May 2003
Melbourne-based artist Linde Ivimey explores the dark underbelly of the lives of the saints.

Take Twelve
23 April 2003
Capturing the essence of the performing arts, on paper.

Sour grapes
14 April 2003
Aussies are fond a tipple – we all know that – but did you know that wine is in our blood?

Nature Freak
07 April 2003
The weird and wonderful natural world is immortalised by Colombian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso.

Postcards from the Fringe
12 May 2003
Go walkabout with Aboriginal Art from the Urban Fringe.

A Daddo by any other name…
05 May 2003
That famous Australian dynasty launches another star, with Jamie Daddo’s new Melbourne exhibition.

Land Rites
07 May 2003
Australian artist Maureen O’Shaughnessy explores humanity in the landscape in a new exhibition at Michael Nagy Fine Art.

Sex and the city and the artist
23 April 2003
Brisbane artist Robert Brownhall tells more ‘city stories’ in his tenth Doggett Street Studio exhibition.

Botany Bay
31 March 2003
The incredible botanical engravings of Banks’ Florilegium make a rare appearance at holmes à court Gallery.

The Empire Strikes Back
24 March 2003
China is the new black according to the Australian Museum, as it follows up the recent Chinese Dinosaurs exhibition, with Two Emperors: China’s Ancient Origins.

Having a Capital Time
10 March 2003
It’s a busy week in Our Nation's Capital, with two new exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery.

Tiny artforms, big ideas
03 March 2003
A unique jewellery exhibition revives an antique artform.

Observing Bonnard
03 March 2003
Re-examining the work of Pierre Bonnard and his position in the history of modernism.

Perfect Vision
14 April 2003
Get off the couch and see the world through the eyes of four dynamic video artists.

A canvas coup
19 March 2003
The famed Hermannsburg Potters are dipping their brushes in paint and creating works on canvas.

Ready, Set, Auction!
26 March 2003
Pay off your credit card and keep your chequebook in your front pocket. A record value has been estimated for the Lawson~Menzies April Art Sale, and the selection is sure to tempt even the most fervent scrooge.

Poison, or remedy?
10 March 2003
A venomous new exhibition for established New Zealand artists Peter Adsett.

Botanical Garden
05 March 2003
If the name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, then the Holden Sandman Panel Van should. Remember the one-off concept car, unveiled amid much fanfare at the 2000 Sydney Motor Show? Well, the colourful artwork was by none other than Mambo artist David McKay. But for now at least, McKay is leaving the motorheads behind and turning his attention to Australian flora.

A Helping Hand
03 March 2003
Now in its eighth year, the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition is known in South Australia as a launching pad for the careers of emerging visual artists.

Good Gould! What an exhibition!
24 February 2003
Veterans on the Australian art scene celebrate a brand new home with a comprehensive exhibition of Australian art.

Going Bush
24 February 2003
From the back of beyond to our nation’s capital, The Bush People explores indigenous notions of place.

Creating a Gothic Paradise
19 February 2003
The first comprehensive exhibition of the Australian work by the highly influential early-Victorian architect, designer and staunch Catholic, Augustus Pugin, comes to the National Library of Australia.

Field of Dreams
10 February 2003
Young Melburnian photographer Jesse Marlow explores a unique football culture in the Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory.

Generations of Utopia
10 February 2003
From the furthest reaches of the Northern Territory comes three generations of superb indigenous art.

Encore!
03 February 2003
Reliving some of the Melbourne Theatre Company's most unforgettable moments.

Weird Couture
03 February 2003
Emrys Hughes takes a look at FRUiTS: Tokyo street style – photographs by Shoichi Aoki.

Emin’s World
23 January 2003
Voyeuristic, brilliant, or just plain mad – whatever you think of her, Tracey Emin’s work is guaranteed to shock.

A Question of Faith
20 January 2003
Colin McCahon is postmodernism’s darling – but unfashionably spiritual. A collaborative exhibition looks into the New Zealander and his God.

The art of cloning
07 January 2003
From Patricia Piccinini’s point of view, those Raelians’ timing couldn’t have been any better. Their supposed cloning of a human child has been the best sort of publicity for her first ever retrospective.

Hello Possum!
18 November 2002
Captain Cook discovered Australia, they say, but Barry Humphries rediscovered it. Now it’s time to rediscover Humphries with a biographical exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Picasso - The Last Decades
12 November 2002
When an artist like Picasso spends the summer in Sydney … no, there are no artists like Picasso. The man is incomparable.

Holiday exhibitions
18 December 2002
While the performing arts scene slows over the Christmas and New Year stretch, the art galleries come into their own – visitors have all the time in the world to stroll, the artists needn’t be there in person and the air conditioning is a welcome respite from the heat outside.

Heart of glass
03 December 2002
There are few things as mesmerizing as watching a glassblower at work. New Zealand’s South Island harbours some of the best in the world.

Don your chador
27 November 2002
Fred Nile will be delighted to learn that part of one of the most important collections of Islamic arts in the world is going on display at the Art Gallery of NSW. He might even learn something.

Art from an outsider
11 December 2002
They say the best art lets us see the world in a different light. So how does the world look through the eyes of a disabled painter?

The NGA turns 20
30 September 2002
The National Gallery of Australia is celebrating its twentieth birthday by hosting a party for the likes of Namatjira, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Tyler. And you’re all invited.

Star Wars: Episode 2 ½
16 September 2002
Just when you thought they’d exhausted the concept and you only had one more film to watch before putting the entire thing behind you, along comes a massive Star Wars exhibition.

Look what I found
27 November 2002
Remember learning about ‘found poetry’ in school? Well, Peter Atkins was the only kid listening. These days, he could be accused of practising ‘found art’.

Spring into Primavera
15 October 2002
Shock and schlock at Primavera, the MCA’s annual Springtime exhibition of emerging Australian artists.

When size matters
04 November 2002
Is a bigger sculpture a better sculpture? Or is it all about what you do with what you've got?

unCanning
06 November 2002
Chris Canning looks for life in the mundane and the everyday, and tries to capture it on canvas. Her record suggests she’s succeeding where many others have failed.

A very colourful family, indeed
28 October 2002
Peggy Napangardi’s family portraits are anything but a sepia toned, formal affair. They dance and sing in joyous colour.

Corporate watchdog
08 October 2002
Ever longed to see what lies behind the boardroom door? At least now you can see what hangs on the walls with Sublime: 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection.

Art for shore
28 October 2002
Sculpture by the Sea is back on the Bondi to Tamarama coast walk. Same distance, more art.

The best of British
24 September 2002
Social realist or Surrealist? Bill Brandt is one of the most significant shutterbugs of the century and his photographs are in a category all of their own.

Candid camera
23 October 2002
John McRae takes photos of men in their most vulnerable moments and makes prints of their facial expressions. And you thought nude models were brave.

One In Three
09 September 2002
The curators of this year’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art have had to do things a little differently. For starters, they’ve selected about a third as many artists as they did last time around, back in 1999.

The Surreal Thing
09 September 2002
Salvador Dali’s melted, stretched, tottering, disembodied and wired forms have come to the Southern Hemisphere. To Sydney, in fact, and then Melbourne, in a new exhibition called The Dali Universe.

Kids who know too much
24 September 2002
British artist Nicky Hoberman paints kids who look like they know more than kids should know. It’s a state that’s been described as “pre-pubescent decadence”.

Smoking camels, flying kangaroos and running pumas
10 September 2002
Belgian artist Koen Wastijn draws attention to a phenomenon we've begun to take for granted. Animals are no longer animals - they're cigarettes, clothes and cars.

Art’s Massive Spring Sale
30 September 2002
The first Australian Contemporary Art Fair appeared in 1988 and its catalogue was a brave double-sided A3 sheet of paper. These days, it’s up there with the world’s biggest and best.

The Kimberley like you haven’t seen it
17 September 2002
Jack Dale is painting the Kimberley region the way he always saw it – as a black man who was born, beaten, bombed and raised there. His new show is an alternative history.

English muffins for the car, art for the people
02 September 2002
The work of contemporary Mexican artist Betsabee Romero is currently on display in Canberra. Our visual arts correspondent in the national capital reviewed it for State of the Arts.

Bums on Lips?
20 August 2002
Design is where art meets functionality. A new exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum traces thirty years of eccentric rendezvous.

Transforming Stranger’s Homes into Modern Art
12 August 2002
Drop out of art school, because door knocking could be the best way to photographic superstardom. Like Simryn Gill, you might end up with an AGNSW show all of your own.

Out of Bounds
06 August 2002
Who says that regional WA is out of touch simply because it’s kilometres from anywhere?

Namatjira goes on tour
23 July 2002
Albert Namatjira’s work goes on tour to put a stop to claims that it’s derivative and decorative.

Making It New: The Barrett Reid Bequest to Heide
02 July 2002
Barrett Reid was there when a little weatherboard cottage in Bulleen, Victoria was a haven for artists like Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd. Now the paintings he owned and wrote about have come back home to the recently restored Heide I.

Spiritual Spaces
03 June 2002
Courtney Kidd takes a stroll around Adelaide's galleries.

On Being 'ARTea'
13 June 2002
State of the Arts has a cuppa with Ruth Downes, whose Tea Party delighted audiences of the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition.

Body Art is Back
20 May 2002
Body Art caused a sensation at the Australian Museum during its first season in 2000. Now it's back to shock a whole new audience.

New Classical
14 May 2002
If you thought the Classical Period was over, think again. A group of sculptors, an aristocratic garden designer and a bit of fidelity to the aesthetics of yesteryear is turning one British stone workshop from conservation to re-creation.

And So to Bed
30 April 2002
Beds feel solid, especially at the end of a long day. But a new exhibition at Sydney's historic Elizabeth Bay House proves that beds are just as prey to fashion and the course of time as everything else.

Burke & Wills
04 March 2002
A new National Library of Australia exhibition follows Burke and Wills From Melbourne to Myth.

Love & death
09 January 2002
Victorian evocations of pleasure and pain, love and death are brought to life in a moody exhibition of some of the world's finest high Victorian art.

Art, Love & War
09 January 2002
Visitors to the Australian War Memorial may be familiar with Stella Bowen's iconic images of RAAF personnel. A new travelling exhibition places her very personal art in a wider context for the first time.

Stuck in the middle
27 August 2002
Reframing Patriarchy is Mike Green’s exploration of his two pasts: Tongan native and British colonial. That he’s unable to disentangle them is what makes his work so captivating.

Blind Spot
05 August 2002
Dancer turned artist Judith Wright is still making a living out of movement.

Up and Coming
08 July 2002
School's out for a crop of likely looking art school students across the country, and the best of them have shipped their cardboard caravans and cigarette-butt coats to Perth's Institute of Contemporary Arts for Hatched, the National Graduate Show.

Sydney by Ferry
02 April 2002
Take to the waterways with a new Museum of Sydney exhibition.

Ballarat Canyon
02 April 2002
Time might have passed since the Eureka Stockade but the town of Ballarat has had another coup.

Fast Forward to Hong Kong
15 July 2002
The next Hong Kong Arts Festival can boast classical kidnappings, Korean rock musicals and the woman who turned down an invitation to Madonna's wedding. And that's only the beginning of programming for the 2003 extravaganza.

Mambo Flags
04 March 2002
Mambo is better known for T-shirts than flags, but ten Mambo artists have radically re-designed our national icon.

Sneak Peek at Star Wars
15 April 2002
Star Wars makes it to Sydney in an historic exhibition that links Lucas' magic with world myth - and provides a fix between movies for fans.

Futures Forum
15 July 2002
Design icons are making their way toward Perth for an August conference that's all about turning an industry on its head.

Banking on Sculpture
11 October 2001
The National Sculpture Prize brings together the strongest, best and most varied contemporary sculpture in Australia.

Town meets country
07 February 2002
Suburbia and landscape are head to head in two new Canberra exhibitions.

Memento Flori
19 February 2002
The visual representations of flowers are the starting point for Memento Flori, a new exhibition from the Australian Centre for Photography.

Art Without Artifice
30 November 2001
Other Pictures, a stunning photographic exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, lifts the work of anonymous photographers into the sphere of art.

Bookworm's Bounty
05 December 2001
Travel through time and space with Treasures From the World's Great Libraries, an exhibition of over 140 items from 35 great libraries in over 20 countries.

Past Present Future
30 November 2001
It's big and beautiful: Buddha has opened at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Gallery's major summer exhibition, initiated by the newly-established Institute of Asian Culture and Visual Arts (VisAsia), presents the arts of Buddhism and the Buddhist realm.

Mardi Gras hits the galleries
23 January 2002
The Sydney Gay+Lesbian Mardi Gras isn't just a parade - it's a month-long festival of activities and events. 2002's visual arts program includes five exhibitions designed to make you re-consider the intersections between sexuality and art.

Bronze Age
07 January 2002
The iconic work of legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin is on display at The National Gallery of Australia.

David Larwill: stuff that matters
22 January 2002
David Larwill has been described as a "larrikin in paint". Ballarat Fine Art Gallery launches the first survey exhibition of one of Australia's hottest mid-career artists and the stuff that, according to Larwill, matters.

Worth the Wait?
01 July 2001
Australia's newest cultural monument has broken its first record by taking longer to build than the Opera House. Roughly 25 years in development, the National Museum of Australia has finally opened on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra.

Portrait of a nation
07 January 2001
While the Olympics allowed Australia to project an uplifting image of itself to the rest of the world, the Centenary of Federation is a time for national soul-searching. The National Gallery of Australia's Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001 provides the visual key.

Lighting up the Sky
09 January 2001
Does the thought of an aircraft exhibition conjure up images of lifeless, static displays that could only appeal to the most fanatical aircraft buff? If so, one look at the Australian War Memorial's new Bradbury Aircraft Hall will turn this theory on its head.

Victorian Voyeurism
05 December 2001
The bohemian world of Victorian England comes to haunting life in Annals of My Glass House, a major photographic exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria on Russell.

In Retrospect: William Robinson
11 October 2001
The contribution of Queensland artist William Robinson to Australian landscape painting is recognised in a well-deserved retrospective.

The art of Joy
11 October 2001
Highly personal and original, Joy Hester's contribution to Australian art is shown in the context of her life and times in an important exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.

Intensely Modern
01 July 2001
Frida Kahlo is celebrated both for her vivid and haunting self-portraits and her tempestuous relationship with Diego Rivera, Mexico's most prominent modern painter. Their work is at the hub of an outstanding exhibition of Mexican Modernism at the Australian National Gallery this winter.

Your Teabags Reclaimed
01 September 2000
Art works by a new generation of British artists extend the functional and aesthetic possibilities of familiar materials in this playful and inventive exhibition.

A celebration of island culture
24 January 2001
Tasmania's first international arts festival, Ten Days on the Island, takes full advantage of the distinctive qualities of island culture.

Capturing the Floating World
11 March 2000
Monet and Japan is the first exhibition to pair Monet's paintings with the Japanese prints, the screen paintings and the decorative arts that the artist so admired.

A Wider Modern World
01 September 2000
Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds returns to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, after a ground-breaking tour to Switzerland, Germany and Russia.

Short films at large
07 January 2001
The films don't get any longer but the Tropicana Short Film Festival gets bigger every year

AGNSW polishes the silver
01 September 2000
Australian Icons presents the Australian way of life and national identity through the eyes of 20 of the country's most revered artists.

Across Time and Place
01 November 2000
Within its spectacular contemporary setting, The University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art presents a dynamic mix of current art practice and historical perspective.

Australian Jigsaw Nears Completion
01 November 2000
Australians will finally have the chance to explore what it is to be an Australian when the new National Museum opens in Canberra in March.

Making a Big Bang
01 November 2000
Digital technology has enabled Melbourne Planetarium to create Out of the Darkness, a cosmic spectacular fusing visual effects, music and science.

Quilts That Speak
01 September 2000
Australian history is brought vividly to life by the utilitarian and decorative handwork of convicts, farmers, Governors' wives and prisoners of war.

Passport to the Future
01 September 2000
Philip Trusttum's vibrant Passport to the New Millennium at the Christchurch Convention Centre is the largest known artwork in New Zealand.

In the Public Eye
01 September 2000
An Art & Industry project is about to come to fruition as a new major Biennial Contemporary Art Festival gets underway in New Zealand.

Scrolling Through 2000 Years
01 September 2000
Fragments of the controversial Dead Sea Scrolls are the central focus of an Olympic Arts Festival exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Anne Frank: An Inspiring Story
01 September 2000
While Anne Frank's legacy continues to inspire hope and empathy, this exhibition is a clear demonstration that the struggle against intolerance is as relevant in Australia today as it was during the Holocaust.

Landmarks at Australian Museum
01 September 2000
Photographic images by a culturally diverse group of young people bring a fresh view to the subject of why place matters.

Great Works
01 September 2000
Big works, big orchestras, and big names abound in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival concert program.

As Clear as Glass
01 September 2000
The work of prominent Australian glass artists is held up to the light in a touring exhibition jointly conceived in Brisbane and Munich.

Olive Cotton Retrospective
01 September 2000
A retrospective of the work of leading Australian photographer Olive Cotton brings both her private and public worlds into focus.