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Art & design
Take a trip through time in this stunning photo exhibition
There’s deep complexity to the deceptively simple photos of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at the MCA.
- by John McDonald
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It’s helped launch some of our biggest names in photography. Now it faces a ‘disaster’
This acclaimed Centre for Contemporary Photography may have lost its government funding, but the team behind it have vowed that it will not disappear.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Artists alter historic Brisbane photos to ‘unpick the bias’ of the past
The Elliott Collection reveals the city of yesteryear – now it’s part of an exhibition showing how much Brisbane, and the world, has changed.
- by Nick Dent
The calm of a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra event belies the reality
“The distance between politics and art is never very large,” says Jessica Agoston Cleary, a patron of the MSO.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
At this year’s arts awards in Darwin, a star was born
Darwin at the beginning of August is an essential moment on the local art calendar.
- by John McDonald
We’ve trashed the Yarra for 190 years. Can we really save it in 45?
Cars and golfers give way to bots and billabongs in the NGV’s 2070 vision for our much-maligned river.
- by Ray Edgar
‘That’s so demure’: How TikTok became obsessed with an obscure word
Are these crackers really demure? Why words don’t mean the same thing on TikTok.
- by Nell Geraets
Does science fiction have its roots in Asian mythology?
Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne’s latest exhibition posits the controversial idea in a show featuring work by mostly women from across the Asia-Pacific region.
- by Kylie Northover
At 47, life almost stopped: How this five-time Archibald finalist reinvented his world
Robert Eadie has not let a near-fatal stroke stand in the way of his artistic passion.
- by Sue Williams
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Inside Australia’s biggest museum move in half a century
Powerhouse Museum’s star attraction, Locomotive No. 1, has been trucked out of its Ultimo home to make way for $300 million refurbishment, as part of a giant logistics effort.
- by Linda Morris
At Australia’s richest landscape prize, art conquered politics
This year’s $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize offered a range of ways of seeing our wildest terrain.
- by John McDonald