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    Dazzling After-Dark Festival Lightscape Is Returning to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney for Vivid 2024

    Wander through a new 1.8-kilometre trail filled with light and colour, all while walking through nature, when this luminous event makes a winter comeback.

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    Here's Why You Should Hit up The Big Picture Fest, Frankston's Biggest Street Art Festival

    Eleven artists from around the world are coming to Frankston and there'll be live music and free events to celebrate.

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    ACMI's World-Premiere 'Beings' Exhibition Will Feature Installations That Respond Differently to Every Visitor

    The playful winter 2024 showcase explores the work of art and design collective Universal Everything, featuring 13 pieces from its 20-year career.

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    Original Pages From Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Atlanticus' Are Set to Display in Australia for the First Time

    Penned by the artist and inventor, the priceless sheets will be on display at The Lume in Melbourne as part of its immersive da Vinci exhibition.

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    A Big Art and Fashion Exhibition Dedicated to Paris in the Belle Époque Period Is Coming to Australia

    We've found your next reason to plan a trip to Bendigo Art Gallery: 'Paris: Impressions of Life 1880–1925'.

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    The Art Gallery of New South Wales Is Bringing a Huge Alphonse Mucha Exhibition to Australia

    AGNSW's exclusive winter showcase will focus on the  Czech-born artist — and it has unveiled the rest of its 2024 lineup, too.

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    GOMA Is Throwing a Couple of Enchanted After-Hours Parties Inside Its Stunning 'Fairy Tales' Exhibition

    Wander through an indoor woodland, peek into mirrors and spy otherworldly creatures with a drink in your hand.

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    A Heap of Huge Australian Art Events Have Teamed Up to Create the Country's First Art Grand Tour

    The Biennale of Sydney, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and more want you to make stunning exhibitions your next reason for a getaway — or to play tourist in your own town.

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    Melbourne Art Fair Is Returning in February with a Packed 2024 Program Featuring 100-Plus Artists

    Over 50 events are on the program, including six performances, two major new commissions and four large-scale installations.

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    Save the Date: Auckland Arts Festival Is Hosting 200 Eclectic Experiences This March

    The 18 day festival will feature 200 performances from all over the world.

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    Life Has Found a Way to Bring 'Jurassic World: The Exhibition' to Melbourne in 2024

    Filled with lifelike dinosaurs, the celebration of the 'Jurassic Park' franchise first came to Melbourne in 2016 — and it's returning.

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    A Guide to Parramatta

    The neighbourhood of Parramatta is a land of heritage-listed sandstone architecture, beautiful parks and cosmopolitan restaurants, all built around the centuries-old Parramatta River.

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    Eight of the Best Sydney Festival 2024 Events You Can Hit Up for Under $50

    Discover waterfront gigs, much-hyped art exhibitions, free fashion installations and overwater sculptures.

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    A Huge Banksy Exhibition Filled with 150-Plus Artworks Is Coming to Sydney This Summer

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

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    Auckland Art Gallery's Stunning New Exhibition Focuses on World-Renowned Couture Designer Guo Pei

    Guo Pei's masterpieces have been worn by celebrities around the world — and now they're in Auckland, ready and waiting to be adored.

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    Dazzling After-Dark Festival Lightscape Is Returning to Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne for Winter 2024

    Wander through 2.2 kilometres of light and colour, including a cathedral made out of glowing globes, all while walking through nature.

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    Hello 'Mona Lisa': The Lume's Next Massive Multi-Sensory Exhibition Is Dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci

    From March, Australia's permanent digital-only art gallery will showcase the artist and inventor's works in its immersive style.

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    These Maori Artists Have Banded Together for a Display of Undocumented Taonga at Wellington Museum

    This exhibition is a treasure trove of taonga, collected by businessman George Pain hundreds of years ago.

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    'Italian Renaissance Alive' Is the Next Multi-Sensory Exhibition That'll Give You an Immersive Art Experience

    You've walked through van Gogh's work, then art by Monet and his impressionist contemporaries — now it's time to wander through pieces by Michelangelo, da Vinci, Botticelli and Caravaggio.

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    'Rearranged: Art of the Flower' Is the Vibrant New Floral Exhibition That's Blooming at the Museum of Brisbane

    The King George Square's free showcase heroes paintings, textiles, sculptures, ceramics and new media works that feature floral motifs and explore Brisbane's landscape.

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    Louise Bourgeois' World-Famous Spider Sculpture 'Maman' Has Arrived in Australia for the First Time

    The iconic nine-metre-high piece is on display on the Art Gallery of NSW forecourt as part of Australia's largest-ever Louise Bourgeois exhibition.

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    One of Yayoi Kusama's Giant Pumpkins Is Taking Up Permanent Residence in an Australian Sculpture Park

    Victoria's Pt Leo Estate is adding one of the Japanese artist's three-metre-wide gourds to a collection that already includes Jaume Plensa, KAWS, Inge King and Reko Rennie.

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    Cute Shit: Japan's Pastel-Hued Kawaii Poop Museum Experience Is Coming to Australia This Summer

    Melbourne is about to be filled with "max unko kawaii" — the maximum cuteness of poop.

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    Spencer Tunick Will Close Brisbane's Story Bridge to Fill It with Nudes for a New Photography Work in 2024

    The New York-based artist is staging one shoot in the River City in November 2023, and will return again for a larger-scale piece in October 2024.

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    Bargain Alert: Affordable Art Fair Will Make Its Brisbane Debut with a Four-Day Event in 2024

    The global art market will feature thousands of works for sale, with prices starting at $100.

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    The Biennale of Sydney Has Revealed Its Artists, Venues and First Events for 2024's 'Ten Thousand Suns' Edition

    Here's what you'll be seeing, and where, at next year's three-month-long art celebration across Sydney.

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    From Fairy Tales to Iris van Herpen and APT11: GOMA and Queensland Art Gallery's 2024 Program Is Here

    Works by Judy Watson will also display in South Brisbane next year, while GOMA's Australian Cinémathèque will run a season on mad science films.

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    The King of All Titanic Exhibitions Is Dropping Anchor in Australia with 200-Plus Artefacts

    Coming to Melbourne Museum after selling out its Paris season, the extensive exhibition features items recovered from the ship's wreck site.

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    Sydney's Huge 'Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs' Exhibition Will Feature the Sarcophagus of Ramses II

    The royal coffin rarely leaves Egypt, but it has been given permission to travel Down Under to display at the Australian Museum.

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    Dance in the Rain Without Getting Wet When Melbourne's 'Rain Room' Returns for Its Third Season

    The immersive Instagram-fave 'Rain Room' returns for another season, offering a rainstorm experience that won't mess up your hair.

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    Marvel's Huge New Exhibition Celebrates the Company's 85-Year History — and It's World-Premiering in NZ

    If you want to check out 'Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Exhibition', you'll need to head to Wellington.

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    Auckland's ArtWeek in the City Centre Is Returning for 2023 with Ten Days Filled with 50-Plus Events

    Whether you're into paintings, photographs or K-pop — or wandering around galleries after dark — there's plenty of art adventures to choose from on this packed lineup.

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    A Lego Exhibition That Recreates 'Jurassic World' with Six-Million-Plus Bricks Is Coming to Brisbane

    Lego finds a way, with more than 50 dinosaurs, props and scenes from the movie built out of the popular plastic bricks.

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    White Bay Power Station Will Open to the Public for the First Time in Over 100 Years as Part of the Biennale of Sydney

    The historic power station has been transformed into an artistic, cultural and community hub which will reopen as part of the Biennale in March next year.

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    GOMA's Enchanting Summer 'Fairy Tales' Exhibition Will Let You Wander Around a Twisted Indoor Forest

    The stunning showcase will also feature one of David Bowie's 'Labyrinth' costumes, 3000 genetically modified blooms by Patricia Piccinini and a heap of fairy tale movies.

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    Artist Spencer Tunick Is Returning to Australia for a New Nude Photography Work Along the Brisbane River

    As part of the Queensland capital's MELT festival, the New York-based artist will celebrate diversity with a new series of nude photography installations called 'TIDE'.

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    'Pharaoh' Is the Blockbuster NGV Exhibition That's Bringing 500-Plus Ancient Egyptian Works to Australia in 2024

    Covering the time of Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Nefertari, Khufu and even Alexander the Great, this impressive showcase features pieces from the British Museum.

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    An Amy Winehouse Exhibition Focusing on the Singer's Early Career Is Coming to Australia This Spring

    Charles Moriarty was asked to photograph 19-year-old Winehouse before she was a star, then shot the cover art for her first record 'Frank'.

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    A Spectacular World-Premiere Experimental Digital Exhibition About Nature Is Taking Over Melbourne's ACMI

    Art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast will unveil 'Works of Nature', which features five major pieces that muse on the natural world.

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    Swell Sculpture Festival 2023 Is Turning Currumbin Beach Into an Outdoor Gallery with 75-Plus Huge Artworks

    This year, you can check out a 10.6-metre lighthouse, a life-size shark and a towering pyramid across a one-kilometre stretch of sand.

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    Five Reasons to Visit the Chau Chak Wing Museum for an Inner City Arts and Culture Fix

    Go from ancient history to groundbreaking scientific instruments and contemporary art at this striking — and free — museum.

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