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Multimillion-dollar funding cuts flagged for major Sydney cultural institutions
The Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, the Powerhouse Museum and Sydney Living Museums would all be hit by the budget cuts.
- by Linda Morris
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Dazzling lasers the highlight of low-key Arts House return
Housewarming at Arts House is a celebration of the experimental vanguard of the performing arts - and Robin Fox’s galactic lightshow is the best of a mixed bunch.
- by Cameron Woodhead
An unfinished landscape: She-Oak show sheds new light on classics
The NGV’s new exhibition of Australian Impressionism is beautiful and absorbing. It also breaks new ground - but not as much as it could have.
- by Tiarney Miekus
Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97
The Australian photographer and actress June Newton — also known under her pseudonym Alice Springs — has died at 97, the Helmut Newton Foundation said in Berlin.
Artists create awe and wonder of the seaweed forests on Australia’s ‘other’ big reef
Australia’s first seaweed festival, the Seaweed Forests Festival in Manly, highlights the risks facing seaweed from ocean warming along the Great Southern Reef.
- by Julie Power
New Netflix documentary explores world’s greatest art mystery
The paintings by Rembrandt, Degas, Manet and Vermeer might have vanished, but the intrigue about the robbery has never faded.
- by Thomas Mitchell
How to unlock music as key to the art of remembering
Music from the past seems to unlock the doors to the kingdom of the brain in people with Alzheimer’s.
- by Lisa Genova
Graffiti artist requests his work be restored after couple accidentally defaced it
The couple saw brushes and paint cans in front of a paint-splattered canvas at a gallery in a Seoul shopping mall. So they added a few brush strokes.
- by Youmi Kim and Mike Ives
Australia’s oldest artist remains at the canvas, reaching a century
Painter Guy Warren, turns 100 on April 16. Retirement? “An absurdity.” A raft of new exhibitions proves his staying power.
- by John McDonald
She used to cut up cereal boxes for supplies, now this paper artist wins awards
Gamilaroi artist Kerry Toomey draws on mourning and loss, as well as joyful memories of aunties in their Sunday best. And that’s plenty to hang a hat on.
- by Nick Galvin