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Memo magazine Issue 3 now available — feat. Catherine Liu, Slavoj Žižek, and much more!

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

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

Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image

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

Memo Magazine, Issue 3

By Quentin Sprague

Risk Factor: Khaled Sabsabi and Monash University’s Crisis of Courage

Memo, Issue No. 2

Everyone’s a Critic Cap

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

By Akshatha Rangarajan, 15 Mar 2025

<p>Kristi Biezaite, <em>Yearlong Thread</em>, © 2024, hand spun, three-ply yarn from a single whole fleece, naturally dyed with red flowering gum, dimensions variable, East Gippsland Art Gallery. </p>

The Third International Art Textile Biennale, East Gippsland Art Gallery 31 Jan – 22 Mar 2025

By Vincent Lê, 15 Mar 2025

<p>Liam Young and Natasha Wanganeen, <em>After the End</em>. Photo by Eugene Hyland, courtesy of ACMI.</p>

The Future & Other Fictions 28 Nov – 27 Apr 2025

By Sia X. Yang, 7 Mar 2025

<p>Installation view of the ‘Cao Fei: My City is Yours 曹斐: 欢迎登陆’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 November 2024 – 13 April 2025, artworks © Cao Fei. Courtesy the artist, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana Panuccio</p>

Cao Fei: My City is Yours 30 Nov – 13 Apr 2025