If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can a deeply personal object tell you about someone? The newest exhibition at the National Museum of Australia (NMA) aims to connect people with those making massive contributions to our country.
It can happen with the loud bang of breaking down walls, a colourful splash at a protest, or through peaceful letter writing. Regardless of whether it burns fast and bright or slow and careful, social change permanently alters the path a culture was heading down. Those that have altered the direction of modern Australia are celebrated in the National Archives of Australia’s newest exhibition Disrupt, Persist, Invent, until 12 June.
How well do you know who you are, and is who you think you are, the way other people see you? In an opportunity to gain some understanding of how Australians have been seen throughout history, the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has opened the doors to its newest exhibition.
The National Portrait Gallery has today unveiled the winners of the people’s choice award for this year’s portrait prize season. The entrants for the 2022 Darling Portrait Prize and the 2022 National Photographic Portrait Prize are on display at the gallery until 9 October.
It can be easy to forget what people and places looked like 50 years ago, especially if you weren’t born yet. The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) invites you step back in time and remember how we have changed over the past 52 years in Viewfinder: Photography from the 1970s until now, on display until 13 March 2023.
In a small shaky room of an inner Sydney house, one of Australia’s greatest anthems was born. Iva Davies wrote Great Southern Land between the bustle of busses passing by and planes overhead, having to wear headphones to hear himself work. Now, 40 years after its release, the song has been further immortalised as the title of the new permanent gallery at the National Museum of Australia.
An inspiring art initiative has opened at the National Museum of Australia exploring the beauty within agriculture. Earth Canvas is a touring exhibition teaming up Australian artists with regenerative farmers between the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers. The free multimedia showcase is on until 30 October.
CW brings you the latest art's and entertainment news from around the Capital. This week a new exhibition hopes to urge action on climate change, alternative arts hub offers free belly dancing lessons and Canberra's own cabaret star returns to her hometown.
Quietly Spoken is a beautiful showcase of the enormous talent of Annette Blair, from reliving days spent in her father’s work shed to finding inspiration in classic still life painting and bringing them to life-like form.
Deep in the belly of Old Parliament House, the original home of Australian democracy, lies a new exhibition, Changemakers, which celebrates the women who have shaped society as we know it today.
Film maker Frederick Wiseman spent seven decades making what he called reality fictions, a type of uninterrupted documentary, ten of which will screen at the National Film and Sound Archive between now and the end of October. Â
In Reception this way: Motels - a sentimental journey with Tim Ross, all but two of the photographs on display come from the National Archives of Australia’s collection right here in Canberra, so CW thought it only fitting to explore the featured motels from our region.
The company that brought Van Gogh Alive to the capital now returns with a world first – Connection: Songlines from Australia’s First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience at the National Museum of Australia.
A pink and blue ball pit, a bathtub filled with ‘bubbles’, and a giant birthday cake – it may sound like an Alice in Wonderland sequel, but this place actually exists. Welcome to Canberra’s very own Selfie Museum!
