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    Now Open: Australia's Largest-Ever Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Exhibition Is Filled with Dots, Mirrors and Tentacles

    You've got until April 2025 to see 200 of the Japanese artist's works at this dazzling showcase at Melbourne's NGV International.

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    The NGV's Big Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Is Hosting After-Hours Parties So You Can Spend Friday Evenings Surrounded by Dots

    NGV Friday Nights is returning for 18 weeks — and acclaimed chef Martin Benn is also doing a residency at the NGV Garden Restaurant during the exhibition.

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    Now Open: NGV Australia's 'Cats & Dogs' Exhibition Agrees That There's No Such Thing as Too Many Pet Pictures

    From the ‘Chat Noir’ art nouveau poster to pieces by First Nations artists, more than 250 works featuring cats and dogs are on display.

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    Now Open: This Huge Machu Picchu Exhibition Has Arrived in Australia with 134 Priceless Treasures and a Virtual-Reality Tour

    In its only season Down Under, 'Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru' is on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney.

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    Yayoi Kusama Is Turning 60-Plus Melbourne Trees Into Her Latest Polka Dot-Covered (and Bright Pink) Artwork

    As part of her huge exhibition at the NGV, the trees in all four lanes of St Kilda Road in front of the gallery are being wrapped in spotted fabric.

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    Coming Soon: Queensland Museum Is Dedicating an Exhibition to Secrets — and It Wants You to Share Your Own

    Spy gadgets, items with hidden compartments, your own tales submitted anonymously — 'Secrets: Objects of Intrigue' will feature them all.

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    The NGV's Huge Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Will Feature Ten Immersive Installations — Which Is a World Record

    The Japanese artist's latest Australian showcase will include more of her immersive environments than has ever been assembled in one place before.

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    Coming Soon: A Debris-Strewn Post-Disaster Landscape Is Taking Over Mona's Former Library Space for a Year

    French artist Théo Mercier is creating sand sculpture 'DARK TOURISM' to comment on travel to locations with grim histories, as well as the planet's changing climate.

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    Australia's World-First Lego 'Star Wars' Exhibition Will Premiere in Melbourne in 2025 — on May the Fourth

    How do you recreate all things 'Star Wars' using eight-million plastic bricks? You'll soon be able to find out at Melbourne Museum.

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    Now Open: Australia's First-Ever René Magritte Retrospective Is Here with Dreamy Eyes, Oversized Apples and More

    The Belgian surrealist is in the spotlight at the 2024–25 Sydney International Art Series, including some of his most-famous works.

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    Farewell The Lume: Australia's Multi-Sensory Digital Art Gallery Is Closing Its Doors in 2026

    The Melbourne venue will still bring back its Vincent van Gogh exhibition from Boxing Day into 2025, then say goodbye the following January.

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    Yayoi Kusama's Five-Metre-Tall (and Dot-Covered) 'Dancing Pumpkin' Sculpture Is Now on Display in Australia

    The yellow-and-black artwork has been unveiled at Melbourne's NGV International ahead of the gallery's summer 'Yayoi Kusama' exhibition.

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    Brisbane's Story Bridge Swapped Traffic for Naked Bodies for Spencer Tunick's Latest Nude Photography Installation

    The 'RISING TIDE' installation featured 5500 participants sans clothes as part of the River City's annual queer arts and culture festival.

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    Sunflowers, Stars and a Sublime Multi-Sensory Experience: The Lume's Vincent van Gogh Exhibition Is Returning

    Immerse yourself in Vincent van Gogh's iconic artworks, including 'The Starry Night' and 'Sunflowers', at this spectacular experience.

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    Coming Soon: The NGV's Huge French Impressionism Exhibition Is Returning with 100-Plus Iconic Paintings

    Works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot will be on display in Australia — again.

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    Must-See Exhibition 'Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru' Is Bringing 134 Priceless Artefacts to Australia

    The Australian Museum in Sydney is hosting the showcase's Aussie-exclusive season, which features jewels, masks and other treasures, from November 2024.

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    Coming Soon: Spencer Tunick's First-Ever Australian Exhibition Is Debuting in Brisbane This Spring

    This is also the first time ever that the New York-based artist has displayed the photographs and video from his live nude installations to the public.

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    Coming Soon: 'Star Wars'-Worshipping Exhibition 'The Fans Strike Back' Is Making Its Australian Debut

    The force will be strong when one of the planet's largest private collections of replica 'Star Wars' memorabilia heads Down Under.

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    Coming Soon: This Huge Ancient Egypt Exhibition Is Bringing 200-Plus Objects to Queensland Museum

    Explore 3000 years of history, including five sarcophaguses and papyrus sheets from the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead'.

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    Currumbin's Spectacular Swell Sculpture Festival Is Returning for 2024 to Turn the Beach Into a Free Art Gallery

    Over a one-kilometre stretch, this year's free ten-day outdoor festival will feature 60-plus large-scale works from local, interstate and international artists.

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    Coming Soon: Archie Moore's Venice Golden Lion-Winning 'Kith and Kin' Will Display at QAGOMA From August 2025

    The Australian Government has acquired the First Nations talent's award-winning exhibition, gifting it to the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.

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    QAGOMA's Huge 11th Asia Pacific Triennial Will Feature 500-Plus Works by 70 Artists and Collectives

    A maze-like installation in Queensland Art Gallery's Watermall, a harvest garden among the sculptures, portraits of everyday Hong Kong life: they're all coming to Brisbane.

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    Now Open: 'Jurassic World: The Exhibition' Is Your Latest Excuse to Indulge Your Dinosaur Obsession in Melbourne

    Life-sized versions of the film franchise's creatures have roared into Melbourne, making a patch of Brunswick feel like Isla Nublar.

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    Coming Soon: The Symmetry-Loving 'Accidentally Wes Anderson' Exhibition Is Making Its Australian Debut in Melbourne

    Leaping from Instagram to an IRL immersive art experience, this showcase features 200-plus photographs that spy the director's style around the globe.

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    Start Honking: A Free 'Untitled Goose Game' Exhibition Is World-Premiering at ACMI This Spring

    'Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition' will feature different versions of the game that you can play, plus sketches, concept art and design material.

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    Coming Soon: This Frida Kahlo Exhibition with Items Never Seen Before in Australia Is on Its Way in 2025

    'Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image' features the artist's personal belongings alongside her self-portraits, plus other drawings and paintings.

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    Life Has Found a Way to Keep Queensland Museum's Lego 'Jurassic World' Exhibition in Brisbane for Longer

    More than six-million bricks feature in this recreation of the film franchise's dinosaurs, props and scenes — and over 200,000 people in Brisbane have seen it so far.

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    Now Open: The Largest and Most-Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Ever Seen in Australia Is on Display in Melbourne

    You've got until October to check out the skeleton of a T. rex fittingly called Victoria, which features 199 bones and measures more than 12 metres in length, at Melbourne Museum.

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    Now Open: A Stunning Alphonse Mucha Exhibition Is Filling the Art Gallery of New South Wales with Art Nouveau Works

    More than 200 pieces from the  Czech-born artist have hit Australia as part of the most-comprehensive showcase of his work that the country has ever seen.

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    You Can Now Get Around Melbourne on 2024's Stunning Fleet of First Peoples-Designed Art Trams

    This year's theme is ‘Blak on track', with the late Dr Destiny Deacon among the artists featured across the six trams.

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    Laura Jones Has Just Picked Up the 2024 Archibald Prize for Her Portrait of Author Tim Winton

    This is just the 14th time that a woman has taken home the prestigious accolade — and the fourth time that the Greater Western Sydney-based artist has been a finalist.

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    Luminous After-Dark Experience Lightscape Is Returning to the City Botanic Gardens for Brisbane Festival 2024

    Brisbane is getting another chance to mosey through two kilometres of light and colour, all while walking through nature, complete with works by Queensland First Nations artists.

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    A Huge René Magritte Exhibition Is Coming to Australia as Part of the 2024–25 Sydney International Art Series

    As well as a showcase of works by the Belgian surrealist, Sydney International Art Series 2024–25 will feature Cao Fei and Julie Mehretu exhibitions.

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    Matt Adnate's Portrait of Baker Boy Just Won the Archibald Packing Room Prize Among 2024's Finalists

    This year's fellow Archibald Prize contenders include portraits of Jacob Elordi, Tony Armstrong, Chloé Hayden and Jaguar Jonze.

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    The Titanic Story Will Go on at This Big Exhibition with 200 Artefacts That's Coming to Australia

    After displaying in the US and UK, 'Titanic. The Human Story' will make its Aussie debut in Brisbane from July.

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    'Jurassic World: The Exhibition' Is Roaring Into Melbourne From August to Add Dinosaurs to Your 2024 Calendar

    Life has found a way to bring this celebration of the 'Jurassic Park' franchise and lifelike dinos back to Melbourne.

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    Spectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix

    Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.

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    This World-First Australian Lego 'Star Wars' Exhibition Will Recreate a Galaxy Far, Far Away with Eight-Million Bricks

    The force is strong with this one — the Lego-building force, that is, with the largest collection of life-sized Lego 'Star Wars' models ever hitting Australia in 2025.

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    Indigenous Artist Archie Moore Just Became the First Australian to Win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale

    The First Nations talent's winning exhibition 'kith and kin' is a hand-drawn genealogical chart that spans back 65,000 years.

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    A Huge Banksy Exhibition Filled with 180-Plus Artworks Is Coming to Melbourne This Winter

    District Docklands is getting a temporary Banksy makeover, complete with original art, sculptures, an infinity room and a Dismaland Bemusement Park simulation.

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    Meet Naala Badu: The Art Gallery of NSW Has Finally Named Its $344-Million Extension That Opened in Late 2022

    AGNSW's original building, which boasts a sandstone facade dating back to the 19th century, also has a new moniker: Naala Nura.

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    Australia's Biggest-Ever Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Is Coming to the NGV with a Brand-New Infinity Mirror Room

    Summer 2024–25 in Melbourne means dots, pumpkins, a world-premiere mirror room and 180-plus Yayoi Kusama works.

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