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contemporary glass pavilion set in gardens. National Gallery
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Sensitive yet ambitious, team announced to redesign NGA's Sculpture Garden

Winning team announced to shape new vision for NGA’s National Sculpture Garden.

The ACT's Shadow Minister for Arts Nicole Lawder, discusses arts policy in the lead-up to the ACT election. Nicole wears a bright pink jacket and has neat brown hair; she stands on a wooden bridge over a misty lake with her right hand on her hip and her left hand on the bridge railing.
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ACT election: Supporting artists, not just creative infrastructure, through real growth in the arts budget

A Canberra Liberals Government will support local artists by offering immediate financial relief through a one-off 10% increase in grants…

Alex Seton Australian War Memorial
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War memorial sculpture takes on new resonance after Defence Royal Commission report

As Australia faces difficult truths about its Defence Force this week, we are reminded of the power of art to…

Aboriginal man wearing hat and holding spears in country landscape.
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NGA launches its 2025 exhibition program, early

In an unprecedented early announcement for the visual arts, the National Gallery has laid out its 2025 program for early…

Jessica Cottis, a fair-skinned woman with long dark hair tied back behind her head, conducts the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. She wears a black jacket over a white shirt, and holds a white baton in her raised right hand.
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Celebrating connection and story: Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s 75th anniversary season

Jessica Cottis, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the CSO, discusses her 2025 season and the importance of commissioning new…

Bronte Cormican Jones, ‘Lightlines’, 2023, a work commissioned by Canberra Art Biennial. Three neon light installations that appear like doorframes displayed in a grassy environment at night.
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2024 Canberra Art Biennial launches month-long program of public art

Canberra Art Biennial participating artists include Nell, Jenna Lee, Clare Peake, Bronte Cormican-Jones and more.

Women with blonde hair and white shirt standing in museum exhibition. Katherine McMahon.
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Shaking up the past: Katherine McMahon tells how

Katherine McMahon is shapeshifting how we engage with museums - from under six-year-olds to now tapping international engagement.

Young woman dressed in black looking at art in Aboriginal exhibition. First Nations.
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Wesfarmers Arts’ reconfirms partnership with $2.5 million handshake

In one of the longest corporate partnerships in the NGA's history, Wesfarmers supports learning and visibility for First Nations arts…

Black twisted wave like sculpture suspended from ceiling in gallery setting. Lucy Irvine.
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Exhibition review: Materiality...but not as we know it, CMAG

Thought-provoking exhibition looks at materiality and function.

Red coloured photographic portrait of a man from mid 19th century. Gauguin
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Everything other than Gauguin: addressing the dilemma

We listen, we learn, we ponder, we argue with ourselves and, hopefully by the end of it, we gain a…

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