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Seeing is believing: the art of illusion

Anne Zahalka is among the 12 contemporary Australian artists in the exhibition with her work <i>Jack Rabbits</I>.

Geelong Gallery's curator Lisa Sullivan, a long-time fan of 'trompe l'oeil' (French for 'trick the eye'), has brought together a new exhibition featuring the works of 12 contemporary Australian artists whose work celebrates the illusionistic.

Virginia Woolf avoids a car crash

Striking: Christian Charisiou as the cynical young biologist Nick and lead actor Deborah Galanos as Martha.

We don't have the tradition of the "Alan Smithee" credit in the theatre. If we did, this production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? would probably deserve one.

Summer of Love exhibition celebrates nun whose designs spread the word

Sister Corita Kent
Yes 3 1979
screenprint
Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA

Sister Corita Kent had catholic tastes. Long before sampling went mainstream, the feisty Catholic nun's 1960s poster graphics co-opted the catchy slogans and bright, hard-edge colours of advertising, together with the poetry of popular music, to create her politically charged screenprints.