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Young woman standing in gallery looking at contemporary paintings. Ames Yavuz
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Operating across borders: one gallery, three countries

Continuing to expand, Ames Yavuz prepares to open a London gallery, and announces its 2025 program.

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Australia’s richest prize for portraiture platforms artists and community

The 2025 Lester Prize Main Awards are now open for submissions.

Woman holding mirror and showing reflection of her eye. Arts news.
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Arts news watch: this week's trending topics

We report it – you read it. Keep your eye on this week's top arts news stories.

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Defining First Nations exhibitions that will shape 2025

A calendar of must-see First Nations art exhibitions in 2025.

Woman with curly hair wearing black dress with white circles and surrounded by Aboriginal art. Nici Cumpston
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First Nations curator Nici Cumpston to lead US collection

She will be Kluge-Ruhe's first First Nations Director in its 26-year history.

A collage of APRA Professional Development Awards finalists, featuring cropped headshots. L to R: BARKAA (an Australian First Nations woman with dark skin, a high tight pony tail and a bold makeup look), Becca Hatch (a woman with light tan skin and curly brown hair, resting her head on her hand), Harvey Sutherland (a man with pale skin, blue eyes and brown short ahir, wearing a white top looking to the side), Gabriel Strum (a man with pale skin, wearing a cap and round glasses, smiling at the camera), Charlie Collins (a black and white photo of a woman with dark skin and dark hair, her hands resting face up and sitting in a cross legged position.
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Opportunities and awards

$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!

‘Joy’, installation view at Immigration Museum. Photo: ArtsHub. A corridor with neon plastic mobiles hanging overhead that reflect light onto both sides of the walls. The space is lit in purple light with more shaped mirrors at the end of the corridor.
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13 cracker museum exhibitions in 2025

Shift your perspective on the world in 2025, and visit a museum. Here are 13 hot shows for the diary.

Competitions. A digitally rendered 3D competition showing surreal objects that appear to be a tabletop setting.
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Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025

A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.

A painting by Phoebe Stone that shows an oil tanker in black and red rust colour with the words 'Serene Sea' on its hull.
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The accidental artist becomes a winner

The Remagine Art Prize, with its environmental consciousness-raising objective, scouts for new talent in 2025.

John Taylor, 'Chandos portrait', 1610, showing as part of 'Writers Revealed' at HOTA. An oil painting rendered in dark hues of a figure looking calmly at the viewer.
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Over 100 manuscripts from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery to arrive at HOTA

HOTA's exhibition will feature rare manuscripts, first editions and portraits of literary luminaries, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and the…

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