History
Art & Australia was first published by Sam Ure Smith in May 1963. It followed Sam's father Sydney Ure Smith's publication "Art in Australia", which was in print 1916–42.
From 1963 to 1983, Mervyn Horton was the magazine's founding editor. He was followed by Elwyn Lynn, Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien, Dinah Dysart, Hannah Fink and Laura Murray Cree. In 2003, Eleonora Triguboff became Editor/Publisher of ARTAND Australia, former editors include Laura Murray-Cree, Claire Armstrong, Katrina Schwarz, Michael Fitzgerald and Genevieve O'Callaghan. The magazine has also involved many distinguished editorial advisers.
Since 2004, winners of the ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award – awarded to Australian and New Zealand emerging artists – have appeared on the magazine's back cover. Since 2008, the magazine has partnered to host the Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program. ARTAND Australia also regularly collaborates with artists and designers to produce Artist Editions and Artist Projects.
In August 2013, the print magazine celebrated fifty years and its 200th issue. The 201st issue – volume 51, number 1 in August 2013 – featured a redesign by Melbourne-based design firm Fabio Ongarato Design.
Art & Australia continues to evolve in the exciting though turbulent world of converging media and art. In 2014 Art & Australia launched a new website as a platform to share their archive of over fifty years and daily news. At this time they decided to migrate to a fully online presence and increase their focus on art book publication with Dott Publishing, an imprint of Art & Australia.
In 2015, Eleonora Triguboff donated Art & Australia to the Victorian College of Arts. Triguboff's ARTAND Foundation retained Dott Publishing. [2] From 2015 Art & Australia has been published as Art + Australia. In the period between 2015-2021 Art + Australia published a biannual, thematic issues that charted the geopolitical conditions of contemporary artistic practice. Alongside the magazine Art + Australia ran an online platform of art criticism and commentary, alongside a book imprint.
In 2022 Art + Australia shifted to a digital publication with biannual publication of the latest discussions, criticism and reflections on contemporary artistic practice from Australia and abroad. The online magazine is supplemented by a book imprint and a range of other publishing activities.
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