And across town at UTS Gallery, a survey of Justine Youssef’s work has been co-commissioned by Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane and UTS (3 October– 24 November, free). November

The 9th TarraWarra Biennial has been curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi, and is titled ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili, a Samoan proverb that means ‘the canoe obeys the wind’. It will feature newly commissioned works by 15 artists/artist groups focused on the interconnectedness of the peoples of Australia, Asia and the Great Ocean at the TarraWarra Museum of Art (1 April – 16 July). MayI knew about Frida’s injuries, illnesses and turbulent relationship with her husband. But as we shot the series I learned more and more about how they fed each other as artists. They really were an incredible couple.” In Sydney, Carriageworks will present the first major solo exhibition by artist Salote Tawale, drawing on her Indigenous Fijian and Anglo-Australian heritage to consider how memory relates to identity and place. With the exhibition space conceived as a ‘memory bank’, Tawale will bring together paintings, sculpture, installation and video to investigate the complex and, at times, unreliable nature of memories (11 October– 10 December, free). Salote Tawale, Carriageworks Clothing Store Artist Studios, 2022. Image: Jacquie Manning. UNSW Galleries has a bumper mid-year program, with highlights including David Sequeira: History & Infinity and Renee So: Provenance (18 August – 19 November, free). It interestingly coincides with the return of The National: Australian Art Nowfor its fourth iteration. Presented across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the exhibition opens across rolling dates, and offers a dialogue on making now. It has been curated by an all-female curatorium this time, free.

Kahlo and Rivera went through periods of separation, but they joined together to help exiled Soviet communist Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia in 1937. The Trotskys came to stay with them at the Blue House (Kahlo's childhood home) for a time in 1937 as Trotsky had received asylum in Mexico. Once a rival of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Trotsky feared that he would be assassinated by his old nemesis. Kahlo and Trotsky reportedly had a brief affair during this time.Less than a month later, I found myself in a studio in Glasgow ‘being Frida Kahlo’. It sounds cheesy but it was all very unreal. The world is small – and I was in the right place at the right time.

In 1929, Kahlo and famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera married. Kahlo and Rivera first met in 1922 when he went to work on a project at her high school. Kahlo often watched as Rivera created a mural called The Creation in the school’s lecture hall. According to some reports, she told a friend that she would someday have Rivera’s baby. The exhibition will include a selection of works by Waples-Crowe, co-curated by Artistic Director Patrice Sharkey and Dominic Guerrera (Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna), alongside a presentation of new commissions by three emerging First Nation artists based in SA and mentored by Waples-Crow. October Vincent Namatjira – Art Gallery of South Australia will have a major solo exhibition in 2023. Image: Supplied. After Kahlo’s death, the feminist movement of the 1970s led to renewed interest in her life and work, as Kahlo was viewed by many as an icon of female creativity. Frida Kahlo's Most Famous Paintings May settles into another season of key prizes, with the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes presented by the Art Gallery of NSW (6 May – 3 September), and the churchie emerging art prize at the IMA (Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, 20 May – 19 August). In South Australia, the most expensive prize for an emerging artists – the Ramsay Art Prize2023 – is delivered by the Art Gallery of SA (27 May – 27 August, free).Also worth visiting in May is Milton Moon: Craftingmodernism at AGSA. One of the most important Australian potters of the 20th and early 21st centuries is examined in this important exhibition looking at his 60-year practice and its impact (6 May – 6 August, free). June Featuring Lopez vs Lopez, The Real Housewives of Miami, Leguizamo Does America, Messi, The Mask of Zorro, Fast X, Enough, Machete, Endgame, Superstore, and other TV and film titles; channels including Telemundo al Dia; soccer; telenovelas; horror; women in film; and more. Hayden Herrera’s 1983 book on Kahlo, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, helped to stir up interest in the artist. The biographical work covers Kahlo’s childhood, accident, artistic career, marriage to Diego Rivera, association with the communist party and love affairs. After a triumphant return in 2022, Sydney Contemporary (NSW) will again be held at Carriageworks, 7-10 September. Two interesting exhibitions that explore First Nations dialogues during May, are Gone Fishing at GOMA – profiling Indigenous Australian works that relate to the cultural, social and recreational activity of ‘fishing’, highlighting current topical discussions around rising seawaters, the depletion of the Great Artesian Basin and native title versus land rights (20 May – 21 January 2024, free).

On the west coast, the Art Gallery of Western Australia presents the first major museum exhibition of Farah Al Qasimi (born 1991, Abu Dhabi) in Australia. Star Machinecomprises over 20 works from a key five-year period of the artist’s practice (2017–2021) and asks important questions around ‘what do photos do now?’ (4 February– 30 July 2023, free).

Within months of marrying Kahlo, Rivera was having affairs. Most hurtfully to Kahlo, he ended up having a relationship with her younger sister, Cristina, with whom she was very close. Calendar - Includes a grid for the last 4 months of 2023. The wall planner includes 12 specially designed images for each month of the year, full of colours and originality. Keep your room's positive energy and surprise your friends with this perfect gift Tarnanthi atAGSA will also include panpa-panpalya, an ideas conference led by notable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators, thinkers and writers, as well as offering an extensive array of talks, tours, performances, workshops, creative activities and education programs. Towards the end of the final episode, Cerda reads out the last words that Frida wrote in her diary just a few days before her death in July 1954: “I await the exit with joy and I hope never to return.” The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.