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We are the dew drops
Poetic and poignant, Lindy Lee’s work reflects the enormity and fragility of the cosmos.
Sophia Cai
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Artists present uncanny Real Worlds in the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
Anna Dunnill
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Lucky or left-behind? Portraits from rural China
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
Andy Butler
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Connection and resistance
The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.
Maddee Clark
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Journey to the centre of the earth’s climate apocalypse
Yandel Walton wants us to be both alert and alarmed. Her exhibition Shifting Surrounds, at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, immerses visitors in the climate emergency.
Louise Martin-Chew
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Did Yayoi Kusama predict our selfie obsession?
Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, on at multiple Sydney Living Museums sites, invites audiences to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of selfie culture.
Tracey Clement
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Patrick William Carter on collaboration and healing
The vibrant multi-disciplinary works of Noongar artist Patrick William Carter are, in their way, love stories: love of family, music, Country and culture.
Barnaby Smith
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Elizabeth Ann Macgregor sails away
Energetic, famously outspoken and determined, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor transformed the MCA, allowing free access for all — and for most of her 20 years as director, she was the only female head of a major Australian art museum.
Julie Ewington
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2021 Adelaide//International: the future as an unmade shared space
The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.
Steve Dow
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Meaning in Adam John Cullen’s sculptures
Adam John Cullen views his sculptural vessels as a kind of biographical excavation: his latest show, Elton, references the name of his Grandmother’s childhood corgi-mix.
Tracey Clement
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Interview: Janet Laurence on creating art during environmental crisis
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
Tiarney Miekus
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The old masters travel to Canberra
Botticelli, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir and Cézanne: in a time of limited travel, masterpieces from the National Gallery, London are coming to our National Gallery of Australia
Andrew Stephens
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