As many of you would know, local artist Louisa Bufardeci has been running a monthly excursion from ACC to visit contemporary art exhibitions around Melbourne for the last year or so (which has been just wonderful).

This week she has put together a curated list for us all - to help us explore some contemporary art that is out there in the online universe. Thanks so much Louisa!

And, if anyone else would like to share their expertise or passion and send through their own list, that would be fantastic. Just email us.

1. 2020 Biennale of Sydney - Nirin curated by artist Brook Andrew is now online

2. Centre for Contemporary Photography - Moving Image series: 7-29 April 2020, Tracey Moffatt: Art Calls

3. National Gallery of Victoria - Virtual tour of Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines

4. Learning to Love You More - this online project from 2002-2009 by American artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher invited anyone to submit an assignment for other people to do. There are hours to lose in this project either reading through the zany assignments and their responses, or doing some of the assignments yourself! 

5. Google Arts and Culture - having recently read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism I can’t help thinking anything associated with Google needs to be faced with caution, however in these times I am so grateful for Google Arts and Culture. This website offers a selection of work from museums, galleries and art institutions from all over the world. With their trademark high resolution cameras Google have captured detail that’s difficult to see with one’s own humble human eye.  

   Here are some good starting points:

   • The extraordinary work of Grayson Perry.

   • The Museo Dolores Olmedo which houses many works by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

   • Artmossphere - documentation from a street art festival in Moscow in 2014.

   • Eight Views and Nine-Bend Streams of Gyeonggi: Mountains, Rivers and People - a beautiful exhibition of drawings and paintings from China that merges time.