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#AndInTheEnd it's LaBeouf's 'passport back into the world'

Shia LaBeouf told Variety: "I gotta earn my way back."

Shia LaBeouf is in Sydney for the inaugural Bingefest, a 24-hour pop culture festival hosted by the Sydney Opera House. His event brings together broadcasters, artists, thinkers and humourists with vintage video game fans and cat video lovers is titled #AndInTheEnd.

A dizzying art of excess

Jean Varin (1604-1672), Bust of Louis XIV, 1665-66. On loan from the Palace of Versailles.

This beautiful exhibition of refined craftsmanship at the National Gallery of Australia contains signature pieces from the Ancien Regime.

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.