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The Pre-Raphaelites: From a rebellious brotherhood to wealthy art celebrities

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
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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
Sydney Modern Project approved as critics appeased
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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

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
'Exceptional' fresco highlights Roman taste in bedroom art
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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.

'Picasso' found under a tree in Romania appears to be hoax
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.

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MC Escher - maths geek and art legend - seen anew in nendo collaboration at NGV

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
Picasso's stolen Tête d’Arlequin 'found' six years after Rotterdam heist
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.

$123.7 million for David Hockney painting shatters record
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

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

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