This exhibition marks the first major retrospective in Australia celebrating the work of Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey, who was a pioneer of Aboriginal art. It features more than 70 artworks, ranging from paintings to draft illustrations from his children's books, as well as ceremonial and historical objects. Roughsey is renowned for his award-winning children's book, "The Rainbow Serpent," which tells stories from Australian Aboriginal culture.

His artistic practice had its origins in traditional bark painting, in which he explored Lardil ancestral narratives in a distinctive figurative style. He later transitioned into modern paintings in oil and acrylic, depicting life on his native Mornington Island both before and after European contact.

"Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey: Stories of this Land" is on show until August 18 at QAGOMA in Brisbane. Tickets and additional information are available on the museum's website.

This exhibition is part of the Rencontres d'Arles, the annual photography festival that runs from July 1 through September 22 in Arles, France. It focuses on the wide-ranging practice of British photographer Tom Wood, who photographed the everyday life of Liverpudlians for thirteen years. "Tom Wood: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters" brings together a corpus of prints selected from his eponymous series, shot on the streets of Liverpool and surrounding areas between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It also features a selection of old postcards of mothers and daughters which Wood collected while he was still at school.

"Tom Wood: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters" is on show until August 25 at the Salle Henri-Comte in Arles, France. More information can be found on the website of the Arles photography festival.

"Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra" marks the first sound-based performance exhibition ever commissioned by the Met. The installation is composed of 32 hollow artworks from the museum's collection, including sculptures, utilitarian containers and decorative objects. British artist Oliver Beer selected the vessels for their innate sound frequencies, capturing the ambient tones resonating within each object via small microphones activated by a keyboard.

The arrangement of artworks forms a versatile musical instrument, similar to an organ with multiple pipes that is capable of producing the 32 sequential pitches of a keyboard. During museum opening hours, "Vessel Orchestra" plays a preprogrammed 20-minute piece composed by Beer for the exhibition. On Friday evenings, guest musicians and artists are invited to perform new compositions and improvisations on the installation in a series of in-gallery concerts.

"Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra" is on view at the Met Breuer until August 11. For additional information, see the museum's website.