Like an ominous curtain: Detail of Mikala Dwyer's Bay of Sick installation at the AGSA. Photo: Saul Steed

Arts & Culture

When life imitates art: a cautionary tale

The yellow and black banners that have cloaked the Art Gallery of SA’s façade in recent months are part of a Monster Theatres art installation that curator Leigh Robb says can now be seen as extraordinarily prophetic in light of COVID-19.

Arts & Culture

AGSA announces $10,000 artist bursary recipients

Six South Australian visual artists and art collectives hit hard by the COVID-19 shutdown will receive a total of $60,000 in grants after being selected from among almost 100 applicants for the Art Gallery of SA’s artist bursaries.

Arts & Culture

It’s time to get your art fix again as galleries reopen

The Art Gallery of South Australia has today reopened to the public after a 10-week closure due to the COVID-19 crisis, with the SA Museum to open from Monday and many smaller galleries also welcoming back visitors with new exhibitions.

Opinion

Reframing Cook and his legacy through an artist’s lens

As National Reconciliation Week 2020 celebrates the theme In This Together, Art Gallery of SA assistant director Lisa Slade highlights a contemporary artwork that says with paint what seems so difficult to say with words.

Arts & Culture

White Tara and the art of meditation

In these times of uncertainty and illness, it is worthwhile to consider how art addresses the familiar fears of mortality and death, writes James Bennett, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s curator of Asian art.