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By Margarita Kontev, 26 Apr 2025

<p>Installation view of Evie Poggioli, left to right: <em>Like Wading Through Honey, </em>2025, 35mm Slide Film (Psych Ward Drawings, Found Images), Projection Reel, Fog machine, 17 Minute Spoken Word Audio, and <em>Essential Oil Sleep Blend,</em> 2025, acrylic on canvas, Suicidal Oil Piglet: The Womb. Photo: Joseph Doggett-Williams</p>

Evie Poggioli, Like Wading Through Honey, Suicidal Oil Piglet: The Womb 12 Apr – 3 May 2025

By Laura Luciana, 19 Apr 2025

<p>Seren Wagstaff, <em>We Who Were Digging</em>, 2024 (detail). Photo: Jessica Maurer.</p>

Garden Variety Dykes, Firstdraft Gallery 28 Mar – 10 May 2025

Art Against Contemporary Autocracy—Australia Included?

By Josh Milani, Anthony Gardner, Louise Adler, Ghassan Hage, Azza Zein

Public Forum: Who’s Afraid of Khaled Sabsabi?

By Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Giles Fielke

Khaled Sabsabi, YOU (2007)

Everyone’s a Critic Cap

By Ebony Maurice-Wilmott, 12 Apr 2025

<p>Installation view of Tony Clark and Joanne Ritson, <em>Jasperware Arrangement</em>, 2024, plaster, aluminium, cotton, and hessian, 52 x 130 x 30 cm, Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne. Photo: Christian Capurro.</p>

Tony Clark: Unsculpted, Buxton Contemporary

By Brian Obiri-Asare, 5 Apr 2025

<p>Julie Mehretu, <em>about the space of half an hour (R. 8:1) 5</em>, 2019–2020, ink and acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy and © Julie Mehretu, photograph: Tom Powel Imaging</p>

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) 29 Nov – 27 Apr 2025

By Scott Robinson, 5 Apr 2025

<p>Frida Kahlo: In her own image, installation view. Photograph by Leon Schoots.</p>

Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image, Bendigo Art Gallery 15 Mar – 13 Jul 2025

By Nyoah Rosmarin, Tahj Rosmarin, 2 Apr 2025

<p>The Queensland Cultural Centre (QCC) and its unavoidable concrete mass. Photograph by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/QueenslandCulturalCentreCampaign/photos/pb.100064321646229.-2207520000/1529001350698355/?type=3">unknown</a>.</p>

Queensland Cultural Centre

By Lachlan Thompson, 29 Mar 2025

<p>Denis Beaubois, <em>After the Phrase</em>, 2021, 4k video presented as HD, reflective surface, list of the verbs or adverbs that follow the phrase 'Australians are' in the Hansard transcript (Australian Federal Senate) 1901-2021, duration: 157 minutes. Photo: Jessica Maurer</p>

Indivisible, Tin Sheds Gallery 20 Feb – 4 Apr 2025

By Cameron Hurst, 29 Mar 2025

<p>Lili Ward, <em>In Time</em> (left) and <em>Meditate and Destroy</em> (right), 2025, chalk pastel, pencil, acrylic paint on canvas, plywood, varnish and oil-based stain, metal hinges and metal screws, 60 x 75 cm. Photo: Conners Conners</p>

Followed by Whirring 6 Mar – 5 Apr 2025

By Philip Brophy, 22 Mar 2025

<p>Visitors in Yayoi Kusama’s <em>The Obliteration Room, </em>2002-present, the <em>Kusama for Kids</em> exhibition at NGV International, Melbourne until 21 April 2025.© YAYOI KUSAMA. Photo:Tom Ross</p>

Yayoi Kusama, National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International 15 Dec – 21 Apr 2025

By Eve Sullivan, 22 Mar 2025

<p>Ian Milliss, <em>Untitled,</em> 1968.</p>

Ian Milliss Early Drawings 1967-1971, Sydenham International 14 Mar – 5 Apr 2025

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