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Lifted by balloons, Noemi Lakmaier will float inside the Opera House
A temporary living installation will feature an artist lifted by 20,000 children's party balloons.
- by Garry Maddox
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NGV House of Dior review: A fashion house to trump them all
This is not just timeless fashion, but time-filled: every stitch painstakingly made by hand.
- by Penny Webb
Art Stage Jakarta 2017 reveals an art scene that is about to explode
A time of economic and social upheaval in Indonesia has brought about a burst of creativity, writes John McDonald.
- by John McDonald
Poetry springs up in the gardens this September
New Shoots has commissioned 10 poets to respond to plants and places in the Royal Botanic Gardens for the Melbourne Writers Festival.
- by Hannah Francis
What's Hidden in Rookwood's annual sculpture walk
Art installations ranging from the commemorative to the interpretive have come together for Rookwood Cemetery's annual Sculpture Walk.
- by Linda Morris
Curtain goes up on new Carriageworks' kaleidoscopic art installation
Exclusive: Sydney's Carriageworks has announced its most ambitious single-artist commission, and it's dazzling.
- by Linda Morris
The Big Anxiety Festival tests theory of arts as a mental health fix
In the course of founding expressionism the Dutch-born artist Vincent van Gogh drove himself to the brink of insanity and ended the self torture with a shot to the head.
- by Linda Morris
Bar SK fuses art of beer with the art of games
There are no Super Mario Brothers posters at this unusual Collingwood bar.
- by Hannah Francis
The art of the ordinary
A new exhibition at MONA explores the world of art not usually seen gracing the walls of contemporary art galleries.
- by Kylie Northover
Powerful message from Imants Tiller and Michael Nelson Jagamara
Imants Tillers and Michael Nelson Jagamara continue to put past grievances aside
- by Karen Hardy