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Everyone has a camera in their pocket, but can they create art?
Smartphone cameras are nearing professional grade, so does that mean everyday snaps are, too? A new exhibition suggests yes.
- by Michael Harry
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Review: Plenty of theory but a lack of imaginative and creative will
The National promises to show the best and brightest contemporary Australian art. So why does so much seem derivative and depressingly old-fashioned?
- by John McDonald
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Lovingly restored New Zealand garden has enticed the birds back
In 1972, acclaimed garden Te Kainga Marire was just a barren patch of weeds and clay, but decades of clever planting have seen the return of the beloved tui and other native species.
- by Robin Powell
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Melbourne gets funky with the grandmaster
George Clinton worked the audience into a frenzy during a high-energy, two-and-a-half-hour performance.
- by Nicole Precel
Architecture
How TB and other diseases helped to shape modern architecture
A seemingly random connection has long intrigued historian Beatriz Colomina.
- by Ray Edgar
Arts
Remembering five soldiers and the lives that might have been
Monash University is honoring the pharmacy students who were lost to World War I.
- by Michael Shmith
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Installations highlight the cultural importance of indigenous plants
Two separate displays in Melbourne represent the vast bounty of Australia's natural ecosystems.
- by Megan Backhouse
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Artist Christian Thompson finds Marina Abramovic was right about VR
A place of childhood significance comes alive in Bayi Gardiya.
- by Gabriella Coslovich
Style
Art can cure the haters, says philanthropist Krystyna Campbell-Pretty
An extraordinary gift has helped to cement Melbourne's status as a fashion mecca.
- by Janice Breen Burns
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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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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