This exhibition from Australia’s most ambitious regional gallery is a Francophile’s dream

This exhibition from Australia’s most ambitious regional gallery is a Francophile’s dream

Bendigo Art Gallery’s collaboration with the Musee Carnavalet embraces the romance of Paris’ Belle Epoque.

  • byJohn McDonald

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It’s not often you see an art exhibition as masterfully curated as this

It’s not often you see an art exhibition as masterfully curated as this

Personal identity is explored through pure poetry at the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

  • byJohn McDonald
The art that’s opening up one of the world’s most forbidding places

The art that’s opening up one of the world’s most forbidding places

Saudi Arabia’s second Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale features more than 170 works by 92 artists from 43 countries.

  • byJohn McDonald
The highlights from this year’s rejuvenated Art Basel Hong Kong

The highlights from this year’s rejuvenated Art Basel Hong Kong

With million-dollar sales and uber galleries in force,this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong felt like old times.

  • byJohn McDonald
Regional base and engagement with history make Art Dubai special

Regional base and engagement with history make Art Dubai special

Dubai owes everything to trade and finance,yet its art fair is less nakedly mercantile than any fair of comparable size.

  • byJohn McDonald
What would a city that housed the entire population of the world look like?

What would a city that housed the entire population of the world look like?

Australian architect and multimedia artist Liam Young presents a visionary scheme for a city which would allow the rest of earth to regenerate.

  • byJohn McDonald
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This show swims against the tide and deserves to be seen more widely

This show swims against the tide and deserves to be seen more widely

MONA’s first-ever exhibition of exclusively “old” art,radiates inventiveness and spiritual conviction.

  • byJohn McDonald
Our critic’s take on the must-sees and misses of this year’s Biennale of Sydney

Our critic’s take on the must-sees and misses of this year’s Biennale of Sydney

There’s a celebratory atmosphere about much of the work,particularly at the new venue of White Bay Power Station.

  • byJohn McDonald
Giant trees and sugar thrones:Inside the dark world of fairy tales

Giant trees and sugar thrones:Inside the dark world of fairy tales

Fairy Tales in Art and Film opens up a vast,problematic box of toys.

  • byJohn McDonald
The concrete facade that reveals the dark side of China’s boom

The concrete facade that reveals the dark side of China’s boom

Steeped in nostalgia for a simpler world,The White Rabbit Gallery’s current show asks questions about present day China.

  • byJohn McDonald
Eclectic ambassador’s Chinese collection pushes boundaries

Eclectic ambassador’s Chinese collection pushes boundaries

Australia’s ambassador to China from 2007-2011,Geoff Raby has built a collection of Chinese art that reflects a philosophy rather than a life plan.

  • byJohn McDonald