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Swansong. A man in a singlet with his arms crossed is staring straight ahead.
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Theatre Review: Swansong, Theatre Works

A one-man play packs a solid punch.

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Exhibition review: Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius, THE LUME 

THE LUME provides multiple immersive touch points in its latest exhibition with Leonardo da Vinci's inventions in the limelight.

Lead Us Not. Image on left is a book cover in beige of a bare arm reaching round a wall. On the right is a head shot of a young smiling woman with shoulder length hair and blue eyes.
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Book review: Lead Us Not, Abbey Lay

What happens when a friend ghosts you and you have no idea why?

DakhaBrakha. Image is a concert stage with a huge circular abstract orange/yellow pattern on the back wall, and in front four black clad musicians, three of them women with tall black stovepipe hats and the fourth a man with a bald head.
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Music review: DakhaBrakha, Hamer Hall

A masterpiece in political artistry.

Nani Puspasari. Image is a ceramic of an orange creature with a facemask like appearance, little legs and arms.
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Exhibition review: Nani Puspasari, Manningham Art Gallery

Chinese-Indonesian artist Nani Puspasari weaves a vibrant universe between childhood and adulthood.

'Chickenosaurus' installation view from 'NOT NATURAL' at Science Gallery Melbourne. Photo: Matthew Stanton. Graffiti-like artwork of a hybrid chicken and dinosaur in an exhibition space with a large window on the left hand side. Four young people are hanging out in the space.
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Exhibition review: NOT NATURAL, Science Gallery Melbourne

Artistic and scientific works that highlight the relationship between humanity and the natural/unnatural.

Work from the series 'Cocoon' by Terence Lin, selected for the MAPh 'TOPShots 2024' exhibition. Image: Supplied. A digitally manipulated photographic work featuring a close lineup of oval portraits of Asian youths smiling with their eyes closed and wearing red bow ties with a white shirt. The portraits populate a red background.
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Opportunities and awards

Australia's biggest open studios event calls for registrations, plus portraits and landscapes taking out wins and Tasmanian Theatre Awards announced.

Powerhouse Castle Hill. Image: Rory Gardiner. The front entrance to Powerhouse Castle Hill, featuring a minimalistic silver-panelled architecture and large glass doors that also reveals the second floor.
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A new storehouse for the Powerhouse Collection

Powerhouse Castle Hill will provide new levels of access to its exceptional 500,000-strong collection while Powerhouse’s $1.2 billion renewal is…

a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.
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Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth

The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…

Nan Goldin. A group of people dancing the twist in a room.
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Exhibition review: Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Art Gallery of Ballarat

Goldin's photos of the 1970-1980s are both intimate and confronting.

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