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'Wildly mad': Call to cut red tape and boost Sydney's cultural heart
Regulations and strict police controls are strangling Sydney's creative life, with it easier to open a bar than find a home for a theatre group, reports Linda Morris.
- by Linda Morris
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'This is not a place where objects go to die'
To the casual visitor wandering among the glass cases, the average museum collection can seem pretty static and unchanging.
- by Nick Galvin
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A pool on the Yarra? 90 Melbourne designs showcased in Hong Kong
Melbourne is the sister city to this year's Business of Design Week in Hong Kong.
- by Ray Edgar
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Ideal home of crushed hopes
A new exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery finds the ideal Australian home is far from perfect.
- by Linda Morris
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Bloc Party remixes seminal album with a bang
The British group performed their seminal album Silent Alarm in full ... backwards.
- by Michael Harry
Hands and eyes tell the story of love
When Russian-Australian photographer Alina Gozin'a began walking the streets of New York to find subjects for her latest work, The Harlem Stories Of The Heart, she instead asked people to speak with their hands to describe their first loves, lost loves and true loves.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Hands and eyes tell the story of love
When Russian-Australian photographer Alina Gozin'a began walking the streets of New York to find subjects for her latest work, The Harlem Stories Of The Heart, she instead asked people to speak with their hands to describe their first loves, lost loves and true loves.
David Goldblatt's South Africa photographs capture a divided society
This landmark retrospective of world importance looks at the reality of life in South Africa with an unflinching honesty.
- by John McDonald
Canberra life
Carte-O-Mania: Tiny portraits present a snapshot of Australian life
Were these diminutive photographs, made to collect and share, the precursor to Instagram?
- by Karen Hardy
Kahlil Gibran, poet, artist and life guide, celebrated in new exhibition
Lebanon's favourite literary son has inspired generations around the world.
- by Andrew Stephens
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Out from the store rooms: rare paintings that capture NSW life
The State Library of NSW is shining the spotlight on its rarely seen collection of historic paintings.
- by Steve Meacham