Detail of Eugenia Lim’s The Australian Ugliness (still) 2018, multi-channel high-definition video installation, colour, sound; Image courtesy and © artist Photograph: Tom Ross
Five major exhibition – what one might label blockbusters – were announced recently, drawn both from national and international holdings. The problem faced, apart from a group show of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and another of royal portraits (both largely made by male artists), is that all these exhibitions are surveys of male artists.
