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I found this great thing: the Beach People Picnic Basket
The Beach People Picnic Basket is designed for beach-goers who have had enough of sand wriggling its way into their gouda and camembert.
- by Portia Conyers-East
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Arts
The 'crazy and epic' story of John Coburn's Opera House curtain call
A look at the artist and the tapestries intended as major artistic centrepieces of the building.
- by Helen Pitt
Arts
Review: The deathly obsessions and creative mind of Suzanne Archer
The award winning artist has been branded "non-commercial" because her work is not driven by material ambition, springing rather from a highly independent mind,
- by John McDonald
Home
The little plant sale that took over a Lane Cove garden
Twice a year the Smiths open up their garage and sell hundreds of plants they have propagated themselves to raise money for breast cancer.
- by Robin Powell
Arts
NGV looks to NYC for summer blockbuster featuring Haring and Basquiat
The National Gallery of Victoria is going back to the ‘80s this summer with a joint exhibition of New York luminaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- by Hannah Francis
Review
Melbourne Comedy Festival
Vanessa Steinberg hates work and married badly, repeatedly
"I so wish I was joking, but this is my life." Steinberg's brutally honest account of life as a middle-aged Jewish woman raises eyebrows and raucous laughter. ★★★½
- by Charlotte Grieve
Sydney landmarks
Sun and moon to rise again at the Opera House
The original curtains designed for Sydney's opera and drama halls will be back for one day only.
- by Helen Pitt
White Night
White Night Melbourne's future in doubt
The future of White Night Melbourne hangs in the balance with organisers slapping a 2am curfew on this year's event after shifting it to winter and signalling a change in direction from 2020.
- by Hannah Francis
review
Visual art
Hope and horror as art and design converge
The premiere exhibition at the new Lyon Housemuseum Public Galleries is acutely aware of the interactions between design and art.
- by Robert Nelson
Arts
Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Simon Amstell, never mind the neurosis
Simon Amstell serves up Brit wit with adult themes
- by Michael Harry
Exhibitions
How Aussie artist Cj Hendry is flipping the art world on its head
"The art world has its hesitations," says Cj Hendry of her hyper-realistic works and social media fame.
- by Genevieve Rota