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Picture perfect? Take a peek inside Melbourne’s collective memory
Drawing on an extensive archive of photographs, this exhibition looks not only at the moments and stories that have been captured, but at the gaps in between.
- by Nadia Bailey
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APY Lands art investigation the elephant in the Wynne Prize room
The country’s oldest art prize is awarded for best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture.
- by John McDonald
Museum deploys magical beasts to conjure up real life understanding
A new show at Melbourne Museum melds the wonder of the real with the make-believe and explores the relationship between the two.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Winter is coming: Melbourne’s most unmissable mid-year events
From musicals to masterpieces, festivals to family adventures and music with Lizzo, Paul Kelly and more, there are plenty of events to warm the soul.
- by Michael Lallo
Step out of the sunlight and into Melbourne Design Week’s most outlandish exhibition
The Silo Project offers up the chance to admire an 85-year-old industrial ruin that’s as much a design marvel as those works it’s temporarily filled with.
- by Tomas Telegramma
Capturing the resilience of Lismore locals as they rebuild their lives
The Lismore floods devastated the local community, and now their stories of recovery are being shared in a photography exhibition at NSW Parliament.
- by Joyce Morgan
Review into major Indigenous art collective over authenticity doubts
The reputation of the prestigious APY Art Centre Collective is under a cloud, following claims white administrators altered works to make them more collectable.
- by Karl Quinn
Plibersek, City of Sydney enter row over $500m Powerhouse redevelopment
Federal Labor minister Tanya Plibersek says the Minns government must be sure the demolition plans it inherited for the Ultimo museum are the “right thing to do”.
- by Linda Morris
How coloured pencils at the restaurant table shaped Australia’s new queen of kitsch
Ginger Taylor had always loved drawing – but it wasn’t until she fell into signwriting that everything kicked off.
- by Jenny Valentish
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Ancient stolen treasure to be returned to Nepal by Art Gallery of NSW
A centuries old sculpture stolen in 1975 will be returned to Nepal by the Art Gallery of NSW as part of a global push to repatriate plundered treasures.
- by Linda Morris
Forget fireworks. Rising’s 4-hour light show is a vision for our times
When he’s not zapping clients out of their negativity, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is creating works that might just change our world.
- by Ray Edgar