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Ruth Höflich: To Feed your Oracle
Ruth Höflich’s latest show, To Feed your Oracle at Linden New Art, started with research on magicians, but she prefers cunning and conjuring to magic.
Barnaby Smith
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Light in the Dark
As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.
Briony Downes
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Linda Brescia on needing A Room of One’s Own
Linda Brescia chats about her C3West initiative Skirts, deciding in the shower to become a feminist artist, dressing-up as both a nude and a nun, and the desire to make ordinary women visible.
Tracey Clement
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Opinion
Artists united will never be defeated
In an industry built on gratitude, is a labour union the missing foundation? Madeleine Thornton-Smith delves into the history and possible future of artists’ unions.
Madeleine Thornton-Smith
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New vision for Powerhouse Museum Ultimo
The NSW Government has committed $480-$500 million to renew the Powerhouse Museum Ultimo as the centre of a design and fashion hub.
Art Guide Australia
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The power of older women
Sally Rees celebrates the witchy magic of female ageing via the figure of the ‘crone’.
Briony Downes
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Should we abolish the Olympics?
In a ritualised performance of Olympic events, Pony Express takes a deep dive into what lies behind the gold, silver and bronze.
Briony Downes
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Hilma af Klint’s secret communion
Science, geometry, séances: the extraordinary spirit world of once-forgotten artist Hilma af Klint.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Awakening the voice of the Đông Sơn drum
Bringing ancient objects to life, James Nguyen and Victoria Pham immerse audiences in the sounds of a Vietnamese drum.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Intimate architecture
Jeweller Blanche Tilden has spent 25 years adorning people with unusual materials—from glass and metal to computer parts and bicycle chains.
Michaela Bear
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Peter Wegner wins 100th Archibald Prize with portrait of centenarian
Peter Wegner has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture in its centenary year with his Portrait of Guy Warren at 100.
Tracey Clement
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Bringing the outside in
Australian artists with an intellectual disability have for decades been creating important, rigorous and playful art. Historically these artists have been pushed to the periphery—but not any longer.
Tiarney Miekus
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