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| UpdatedThe artist Elizabeth Gould has not been entirely erased from history, but she has been reduced to an initial or replaced by the name of her husband.
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A painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which recently resurfaced after being hidden from the public eye for 60 years, is set to sell this week for up to $US2 million.
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World-renowned art historian and director of the National Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris, Dr Élisabeth Taburet-Delahaye, explains how and why the recent restoration of the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries took place.
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| UpdatedFour decades after the Australian movie Storm Boy premiered in Adelaide and led what was later considered by many to have been a renaissance for the nation's film industry, a remake is in the planning.
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| UpdatedIt's a song that brought Australia's Vietnam veterans together, but it's not a work of fiction. It's about a real soldier: Mick Storen.
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| UpdatedMore than 50 Sydney buildings which are normally off-limits to the public will open their doors on Sunday, including the Lands Department Building, Hong Kong House, Legion House, the Great Synagogue and Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay.
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| Updated'A mini Tate right here in Sydney' is how curators are describing the Art Gallery of NSW's major summer exhibition, Nude: art from the Tate collection.
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| UpdatedThe people of eastern England are getting a flavour of the best of Fijian art at a new exhibition which runs until mid-February next year.
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A Dutch art historian says he has discovered evidence that six unattributed paintings held in storage in a museum in the Netherlands were actually painted by the famed Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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A showcase of some of the oldest Aboriginal artefacts in Australian history have been returned for a temporary exhibition by the British Museum, sparking calls for them to remain in Australia permanently.
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Smiley faces and images of food and cats designed almost 20 years ago by a Japanese phone company and used in digital messages worldwide attain the status of art.
Topics: art-history, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, information-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, science-and-technology, united-states
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Christopher Marlowe will be named as the co-author of three plays in a new edition of William Shakespeare's complete works after data analysis reveals his role in three Henry VI plays.
Topics: english-literature, subjects, education, art-history, history, books-literature, england, united-kingdom
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A new exhibition in Brisbane is shining the spotlight on an important textile for the Indian community that links itself to Mahatma Gandhi.
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| UpdatedThe family of Albert Namatjira speak out against the NT government's decision to seize copyright of the Aboriginal artist's work in the 1980s and sell it to a publisher.
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| UpdatedLegendary Australian composer Percy Grainger was known for his work in concert halls, but privately worked towards something more inclusive.
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Cathy Freeman's Olympic torch, Johnny O'Keefe's red suit and a 1928 Bugatti racing car so valuable the curator could not divulge its price tag — a new "best of the best" exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum invites viewers to consider what constitutes an icon today.
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| UpdatedAfter almost 200 years in storage in London, rare Menang artefacts return home to Albany WA for exhibition.
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