The fires that swept through the suburbs of Canberra in 2003 were the first serious threat experienced in the history of the city
Calling all creative kids to be part of a workshop exploring artists books in the PLACE exhibition
Just what is it that made 19th century magic lantern slides so enchanting, magic and powerful? Watch a live demonstration…
For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’
Flow Line is a term used in the oil industry that describes the behaviour of liquid forces as they move together
Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring the work of Sidney Nolan
Bringing together works of art, and social history objects from the CMAG collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community…
As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation
Dissonance is about time: our relatively brief time and geological or ‘deep’ time.
Until recently, both existed independently. Both have…
Calling all creative kids to be part of a practical workshop exploring The World Turns Modern exhibition
In the early 1950s, a group of 150 young German men left the security of their homeland and the comfort of their families to travel halfway around the world to a small city called Canberra.
Artists’ books are part of most artists’ vocabulary, either as drawings bound together, illustrated diaries or a response to a place, time, political or historical event, or personal emotion
LENDON/BEER’s THE MASS is the latest collaborative work by Emma Beer and Nigel Lendon
The void is a multifaceted concept, not simply of presence and absence, but a place that exists between distinct worldviews, is occupied by meaning and is imbued with personal, historical and ancestral significance
Celebrate Canberra Day at CMAG with one of our city's longest residents, Dawn Waterhouse
Rosalie Gascoigne developed a completely new way of seeing the landscape of the Canberra region.This vision gradually evolved from her…
For artist, art historian and now collector Martyn Jolly, the magic lantern shows that came to prominence in the mid nineteenth century were much more than just the antecedent of today’s PowerPoint presentation