Tag: Art
Nendo to design ‘immersive’ M. C. Escher exhibition
Japanese design studio Nendo will create a never-before-seen exhibition design for a major presentation of M. C. Escher’s work.
Melbourne’s newest art museum set to open
The Fender Katsalidis-designed Buxton Contemporary, which will house more than 300 works by 53 Australian artists, will open on 9 March.
Tracing a ‘revelatory path’: 2017 NGV Architecture Commission
Cassandra Chilton of Rush Wright Associates reviews the 2017 NGV Architecture Commission by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects and finds, among other things, the “best place in Melbourne this summer for a warm afternoon snooze.”
NGV Triennial late-night program to include immersive, ‘glacial’ architecture commission
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has commissioned a large-scale, interactive architectural work as part of its late-night companion program to the inaugural NGV Triennial.
Baracco and Wright design explorable landscape in audiovisual exhibition
Ahead of their Repair exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Melbourne-based practice Baracco and Wright have designed a space for an audiovisual tour of the world’s remotest wildernesses.
1,500-square-metre mural at Barangaroo unveiled
A large-scale, 1,500-square-metre mural by artist Reko Rennie in Sydney’s Barangaroo South development has been unveiled.
‘A landscape on an object’: NGV’s 2017 Architecture Commission opens
The NGV’s 2017 Architecture Commission by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects blurs landscape and architecture in an ethereal installation.
Inaugural NGV Triennial an ‘unprecedented’ feast of architecture, design and art
A free, gallery-wide exhibition of international architecture, design and art is opening in Melbourne at NGV International on 15 December 2017.
Moments of Place: ‘A Tri-polar investigation into Einstein’s spacetime’
A collaboration between an architect, researcher and artist, Moments of Place at Perth’s Paper Mountain gallery dealt with ideas of place and the imagined audience.
Trias wins inaugural Powerhouse architectural commission
Sydney-based emerging practice Trias has been named as the creator of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences’ first Turbine Hall Commission at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Mirror image: Reflective suburban house artwork highlights ‘disappearing’ home ownership aspirations
A group of artists from Swinburne University’s visual arts program has covered a suburban house in Melbourne’s Ferntree Gully entirely in mirrors.
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s Walsh Bay arts precinct designs revealed
Designs for the more than $200 million redevelopment of Walsh Bay arts precinct have been revealed.
Canberra’s roads, power poles and underpasses captured in paint
The award-winning Bowen Place Crossing by Lahznimmo and Spackman Mossop Michaels is one of the subjects of an exhibition of work by artist Chris Oates.
Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s latest project includes large-scale, site-specific sculptures intended to draw attention to borders, xenophobia and the plight of refugees.
Ian Strange turns condemned suburban house into temporary gallery
For two days only, artist Ian Strange will transform a suburban home in Melbourne’s Richmond into a site-specific intervention and a gallery.
Junya Ishigami’s redesigned ‘grand arch’ for Sydney doubles in size
Light rail construction in Sydney CBD has forced Japanese architect Junya Ishigami to redesign his Cloud Arch sculpture.
The Pool to make Australian premiere in Melbourne
Australia’s 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale commission will be exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Why do architects want to be artists?
What is the difference between an artwork and a piece of architecture? And why do so many architects insist that they are the same thing?
LAVA, Janet Laurence create membrane-wrapped ‘medicinal garden’ pavilion
LAVA has collaborated with artist Janet Laurence to create a pavilion that is both a botanical display and an “experiential” space featuring edible flowers and plant extracts.
ARM’s Gold Coast gallery design updated, builder sought
The design concept for the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct has evolved since ARM Architecture and Topotek 1 won a competition for the precinct masterplan in 2013.
