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Breaking news: Michael Brand to step down as AGNSW Director

Michael Brand's 13-year tenure as AGNSW Director will come to an end in 2025.

Multi screen video installation in black and white of woman looking at African objects. Isaac Julien.
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Exhibition review: Isaac Julien, Once Again... (Statues Never Die), MCA

A spectacular exhibition asks the big questions about how museums collect, and show, artworks with Black histories.

Detail of a terracotta artifact with bird and human heads. Peru. Australian Museum
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Machu Picchu and Incan treasures come to Sydney

From priceless Peruvian gold treasures to a fly-through virtual experience of Machu Picchu, this summer blockbuster promises to be a…

Architecture render of the Potter Museum of Art at University of Melbourne, Wood Marsh Architects. A heritage brown brick building with a reflective steel entranceway.
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Potter Museum reopens in 2025 with exhibition and resources on 65,000 years of Australian art

After extensive redevelopment, the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art makes a comeback with a glossy new entrance and…

A young First Nations boy with red and white striped face paint across his brow and a green brimmed hat, and a ragged denim sleeveless jacket roars at the camera. The Future and Other Fictions. the Love Punks, Sutu
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From Björk to Blade Runner 2049: revisioning the future at ACMI

The Future & Other Fictions is a major new exhibition focused on screen culture’s ability to imagine a better world.

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How I got my break as a curator

The curatorial profession is specialised and competitive. Six curators tell us how they got their career break.

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The most pressing question on curators' lips

For this year’s Ask a Curator Day, we have turned the tables, and asked curators what they would most want…

Installation view of an exhibit at SA Museum. 2021 showing a cabinet of fossils in jars and a bark shield hanging in mid-air.
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Outcry over SA Museum restructure reveals systemic government funding cuts

An overwhelming public backlash to a proposed SA Museum restructure prompted the SA State Government to tell the Museum to…

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With a softening economy, Culture Business could give you the edge

In a competitive funding and philanthropy market, getting tips by international leaders is a boon for Australian arts professionals.

‘Candice Lin: The Sex Life of Stone’, installation view at MUMA. An installation resembling three work stations with different lab equipment and large ceramic vessels beside each station. The space is filled with natural light thanks to a floor to ceiling window on the left side. The walls of the gallery space are paintings in a dark mahogany colour.
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Exhibition review: Candice Lin: The Sex Life of Stone, MUMA

Mineral politics, animal kinship and dark demonic romance come together in the work of Chinese American multidisciplinary artist Candice Lin.

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