CANBERRA
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
Forty years after it was first shown in downtown bars as a slideshow set to music, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a diaristic portrait of her chosen family amid a bohemian demimonde, remains the defining photo collection of the 80s. Chronicling her world and its protagonists’ lives, Goldin’s documentary images (left) place a deeply empathetic, unflinching lens on intimacy, drug use, domestic violence and the ravages of HIV/AIDS. The ‘public diary’ is now part of the NGA collection, and its exhibition follows the Oscar-nominated feature documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which connects the threads of her life and career. July 8-Jan28. nga.gov.au
NEW SOUTH WALES
DOUBLE TAKE
Staging sculpture, painting and sound by four Australian artists – including Cybele Cox (left) – ‘Once…