person Tim Stone

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 21, 2026

A multi-millionaire on a mission: David Walsh expands his Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania

David Walsh, the multi-millionaire professional gambler behind Australia's largest privately owned museum, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania, opens a new wing called Phrontisterion this weekend. Costing an estimated A$100m ($70m), it is the largest construction project in Mona's 15-year history, increasing display space from 8,440 sq. m to roughly 12,640 sq. m. The wing includes Walsh's 'dream library', new permanent installations by artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Julian Charrière, Matthew Barney, and Joshua Yeldham, as well as works by 17th-century cartographer Willem Blaeu. Notable additions include Charrière's Breathe, which lets visitors inhale oxygen from ancient iron ore, and Kiefer's inverted concrete pyramid Elektra (2025), reconstructed from his outdoor studio in France.

museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2026

New Zealand's Venice Biennale pavilion explores the secret life of birds

New Zealand returns to the Venice Biennale in 2025 with Fiona Pardington’s solo exhibition *Taharaki Skyside* at the Istituto Provinciale per l’Infanzia Santa Maria della Pietà. The show features 17 large-scale photographic portraits of taxidermied birds from the South Canterbury Museum Timaru’s collection, including the extinct whēkau (laughing owl) and the critically endangered kākāpō. Pardington, an artist of Māori and Scottish descent, draws on Māori cosmology in which birds serve as spiritual messengers, and her work continues a long-standing photographic investigation of objects that hold “mana” (power) for Māori people.

museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2026

The forgotten Chinese conceptualists: Melbourne show brings together works by New Measurement Group

An exhibition at Buxton Contemporary in Melbourne, titled "Poetry Goes No Further Than Language: a Historical Moment of Art Becoming Art Again," brings together the complete artistic output of the New Measurement Group, a pioneering Chinese conceptual art collective from Beijing, alongside four conceptual experiments by Shanghai-based artist Qian Weikang. Curated by Carol Yinghua Lu and artist Liu Ding, the show aims to reassess early Chinese conceptual art, featuring works by the New Measurement Group (Chen Shaoping, Gu Dexin, Wang Luyan), pieces from the New Wave art movement, and new commissions by Melbourne artist Darcey Bella Arnold. The curators faced challenges locating the group's five publications, including one purchased on eBay from Europe, and used re-enactment and re-fabrication to recreate lost works like Qian's "Ladder Poem" (1990).