The artist known as Banksy is a provocateur who uses art to make telling political points. His commentary is entirely his own. His prints and paintings critique authority and take the air from serious art by stealth. Banksy looks at walls and locations as drawings and underpaintings. These s

The artist known as Banksy is a provocateur who uses art to make telling political points. His commentary is entirely his own. His prints and paintings critique authority and take the air from serious art by stealth. Banksy looks at walls and locations as drawings and underpaintings. These s

The artist known as Banksy is a provocateur who uses art to make telling political points. His commentary is entirely his own. His prints and paintings critique authority and take the air from serious art by stealth. Banksy looks at walls and locations as drawings and underpaintings. These s

It can feel almost playfully earnest, in an age of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, in an age of billionaire rappers and Saudi collectors and James Bond watches, in an age of the Avengers, to look back on a time when the world was still figuring out how art, money, celebrity and commerc

Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus was a master painter and political mastermind. Often masked by the beauty of their aesthetic thrall, his works are poetic and potent statements of Indigenous cultural authority.

Moonlight stems from a sublime, seemingly etherea

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Ray Crooke was a significant part of the Australian art world for more than 50 years, building a career in a steady, if unspectacular, way. His work is loved and collected by many, but his contribution tends to be given only cursory recognition in the main texts and academic writings. He is

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