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Gold medallist led campaign to take down Gina Rinehart portrait
Kyle Chalmers and one of the top officials in Australian swimming co-ordinated a group of 20 elite Australian swimmers to campaign against the National Gallery.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Linda Morris
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The Japanese art that involves a little voyeurism
Why is the ancient art of ukiyo-e an ongoing source of inspiration for some of our top artists?
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Meet the Emirati royal set to direct Australia’s largest arts festival
International curator Hoor Al Qasimi, the youngest daughter of the Sultan of Sharjah, is to lead the artistic direction of the next Biennale of Sydney.
- by Linda Morris
The portrait Gina Rinehart doesn’t want you to see
Australia’s richest person wants the National Gallery to remove a portrait of her by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira.
- by Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw
World’s oldest Chinese dragon vandalised in attack on Australian museum
Two separate dragons were damaged in the attack. Police have released images of two suspects they are looking for.
- by Kerrie O'Brien and Rachel Eddie
Want to know what happens in ACMI’s playful new show? It’s up to you
Visitors need only keep moving to experience their own animated world inside ACMI’s Beings exhibition.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Hedonist or intellectual? The MCA’s new exhibition will sort you out
In A World Undone, Nicholas Mangan tackles the big issues of our time with a formidable intelligence but with a dry sense of aesthetics.
- by John McDonald
Bad hair day? This sexy, icky, potent display might just be the answer
A new exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art explores our sometimes weird relationship with hair.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Aussie rock legend and Jimmy and the Boys frontman, Ignatius Jones, dies
Jones was lead singer of Jimmy and the Boys and went on to direct some of Sydney’s leading arts festivals.
- by Linda Morris
Mona heads to Supreme Court in fight to keep Ladies Lounge for women
The art gallery was ordered to close a women-only exhibit last month after a NSW man launched an anti-discrimination case.
- by Gabriella Coslovich