Reviews

Trent Parke: The Black Rose

Daniel Palmer

Theatres

Andrew Varano

Lucy Bleach: superslow

Eliza Burke

Slipstitch: Contemporary Embroidery

Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
27 March – 17 May 2015

Juliette Peers

Mobile M+: Moving Images

Ellie Buttrose

Marina Strocchi: A Survey 1992-2014

John Kean

Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus (infected)

Ngarino Ellis

Justene Williams: The Curtain Breathed Deeply

Rebecca Coates

do it [adelaide]; Art as a Verb

Kim Littler

Brook Andrew – Sanctuary: Tombs of the Outcasts

Erin Wilson

Archie Moore – 14 Queensland Nations: (Nations imagined by RH Matthews)

Frances Wyld

An Internal Difficulty

Louise Dickmann

An Imprecise Science

Eleanor Zeichner

(in)visible: The First Peoples and War

Adam Geczy

The Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971–2013

Ken Bolton

Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters

Patrick McCaughey Miegunyah Press 2014, 376 pp.

Tracey Lock

Battarbee and Namatjira

Vincent Megaw

Performance Ritual Document

Julianne Pierce

Place and Adornment: A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand

Adelè Sliuzas

Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano: Visible Structures

Darren Jorgensen

The Making of MONA

Kelli Rowe

David Rosetzky: Gaps

Jared Davis

10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory

Rebecca Catching

A Kitten Drowning in a Well: Tribute to Mike Kelley

Craig Judd

Christian Thompson – Mystic Renegade: The Promise of Return Dear Sylvia

Jo Higgins

Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art

Ben Byrne

Hito Steyerl: Too Much World

Kate Woodcroft

One Place after Another (AC4CA)

Paola Anselmi

Simon Denny: The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom

Thomasin Sleigh

Warlpiri Drawings: Remembering the Future

Christine Watson

Matthew Barney: River of Fundament

Eve Sullivan

Same River Twice

Stephanie Radok

Resonant Actions | Subjectify Me

Serena Wong

Working Water: Making Home

Jane Deeth

Tracey Moffatt: Spirited

Louise Martin-Chew

James Turrell: A Retrospective

Sarah Scott

Performance Now

Ellie Buttrose

Horizon: Exploring the West Coast with the Clipperton Project

Susan Starcken

Yokohama Triennial 2014

Craig Judd

Framed Movements

Anne Marsh

The Walters Prize 2014

Peter Shand

On Return and What Remains

Jo Higgins

Erin Coates / George Egerton-Warburton

Sheridan Coleman

Liquid Architecture 2014

Ben Byrne

The extreme climate of Nicholas Folland

Wendy Walker

2014 Busan Biennale: Inhabiting the World

Craig Judd

Giving Voice: The Art of Dissent

Judith Abell

Whisper in My Mask

Anna Zagala

Commune

Stephanie Radok

LANDSEASKY: revisiting spatiality in video art

Sally Butler

Bound and Unbound: Sovereign Acts – decolonising methodologies of the lived and spoken, Act 1

Coby Edgar

Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier

Elizabeth Gertsakis

Segar Passi: Bakei – 1960s to the Present

George Dann

Colour Music

Sarah Scott

Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen

Keri Glastonbury

HERE&NOW14

Shannon Lyons

The List

Ann Finegan

Ant Farm 1976–1978 Australia

Danni Zuvela

Body Art

Stephanie Radok

Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum

Sera Waters

Berlin Biennale 8

Carmen Ansaldo

Inge King: Constellation

Inga Walton

Christoph Büchel: Southdale/C-MONA

Sean Kelly

Australian Art: A History

By Sasha Grishin
Miegunyah Press, 2014
570 pp.

Joanna Mendelssohn

Get a Life: An Autobiographical Anthology of Theories

Jim Hamlyn

Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels

Gillian Marsden

Madison Bycroft: Synonyms for Savages: Animal. Archive. Iterations of the Aether. Squid. Mum.

Kim Littler

Groundrush

Kieran Finnane

Hot Modernism

Louise Martin-Chew

Mother Nature is a Lesbian: Political Printmaking in South Australia 1970s-1980s

Stephanie Radok

It’s Timely

Alyce Neal

Worth its Weight in Gold

Louise Morrison

Saltwater Country

Carol Schwarzman

Some Sydney ARIs

Renee Quiambao

Florid

Jude van der Merwe

When this you see, remember me: David McDiarmid

Margaret Mayhew

19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire

Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Artspace.
21 March – 9 June 2014

Joanna Mendelssohn

Beautiful Vermin

Perdita Phillips

Dark Heart: The 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

Polly Dance

Exotic Lies Sacred Ties: Danie Mellor

Glenn Barry

Ghostscapes: Sera Waters

Sara White

Grid Festival

Caitlin Eyre

No Place (Like Home)

Blair Coffey

Old Masters: Australia’s Great Bark Artists

National Museum of Australia, Canberra 6 December - 20 July 2014

Sarah Scott

Picasso’s Women

Juliette Peers

Pixels+Fibre

Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 21 March – 19 April 2014

Margaret West

safARI 2014

Alaska Projects, Kings Cross Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross Wellington St Projects, Chippendale The Corner Cooperative, Chippendale DNA Projects, Chippendale Museum and St James Stations, CBD 14 March – 4 April 2014

Jo Higgins

Sculpture by the Sea

Cottesloe, Western Australia 7 – 24 March 2014

Laetitia Wilson

The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston 15 March – 18 May 2014 Galleries UNSW/COFA, Sydney 18 July – 30 August 2014

Jane Deeth

Stuart Ringholt: Kraft

Monash University Museum of Art Curators: Charlotte Day and Robert Leonard 14 February – 17 April 2014

Sophie Knezic

The Dealer is The Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade

Stephanie Radok

The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights

Artist and curator Troy-Anthony Baylis reviews Jane Lydon's book The Flash of Recognition: and regards it as a "crucial text for visual communication, media, film, and photography scholars, who will learn to be more analytical of how images, particularly images of Aboriginal people, have been constructed through journalism, activism, and art."

Troy-Anthony Baylis