Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.
John Zubrzycki meets Australian paint pioneer Jim Cobb.
NPPP judge Robert Cook provides irreverent insight into this year’s fare, and having to be a bit judgemental.
Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.
Jenny Gall delves into Starstruck to celebrate some of Australian cinema’s iconic women.
Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.
Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
