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The Pre-Raphaelites: From a rebellious brotherhood to wealthy art celebrities
William Morris,The Lady of Shalott and Ophelia are the top drawcards at the National Gallery of Australia's Pre-Raphaelite show Love & Desire.
- by Shona Martyn
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D'Arts Dance Ensemble in the house
We don't want sympathy. We want to showcase ability, says the founder of a dance ensemble rocking it at the Schools Spectacular.
- by Linda Morris
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Sydney Modern Project approved as critics appeased
The green light has been given to the Art Gallery of NSW's Sydney Modern Project.
- by Linda Morris
The grim truth behind the glitz of this monumental work
A moment's deeper investigation into this monumental installation by US artist Nick Cave reveals a much darker and overtly political intention.
- by Nick Galvin
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'Exceptional' fresco highlights Roman taste in bedroom art
Archaeologists have uncovered, in an ancient Pompeii bedroom, a fresco depicting a sensual scene of a goddess and swan.
Pablo Picasso
'Picasso' found under a tree in Romania appears to be hoax
A Romanian novelist who thought she had found a painting by Pablo Picasso stolen from a museum in the Netherlands six years ago seems to have been the victim of a prank.
MC Escher - maths geek and art legend - seen anew in nendo collaboration at NGV
An immersive exhibition takes visitors inside the remarkable mind of the much-loved Dutch artist.
- by Lindy Percival
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's stolen Tête d’Arlequin 'found' six years after Rotterdam heist
Works by Matisse, Monet Gauguin and Lucian Freud were also stolen in the 2012 Rotterdam heist.
David Hockney
$123.7 million for David Hockney painting shatters record
The price for the 1972 painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures), easily surpassed the previous high.
Human 'animals' another endangered species
When photographer Tamara Dean was invited to the Heron Island research centre to learn about climate change she had no fixed notion about what she might come away with.
- by Nick Galvin
Artworks celebrate unsung stars of the sky
Migratory shorebirds aren't colourful show-offs. Australia's least-known birds, they are usually small and brownish, and neither sing nor build fancy nests. They do, however, fly extraordinary distances.
- by Andrew Stephens