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NewsA Huge New Patricia Piccinini Exhibition Is Coming to Victoria's TarraWarra Museum of Art
Her works — including her hot-air balloon Skywhale — will be displayed alongside pieces by the late Melbourne artist Joy Hester.
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NewsOne of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms Is Taking Up Permanent Residence in Australia
The National Gallery of Australia has acquired the pumpkin-filled installation, which will go on display from December.
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NewsMelbourne's 2018 Art Trams Have Been Revealed
With seven new designs and a recreation of an 80s classic hitting the streets this October.
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NewsThe Biennale of Australian Art Is Ballarat's Huge New Six-Week Art Festival
It'll be the largest-ever showcase of living Australian artists, featuring 150 artists and 65 curated solo exhibitions.
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NewsThe Silo Art Trail Is the Country's Largest Outdoor Gallery
The large-scale artworks are painted on silos and spread across 200 kilometres of Victorian outback.
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NewsThe Whitsundays Will Soon Be Home to an Underwater Art Installation
For the first time ever, four sculptures will be placed in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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GuideSpectacular 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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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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GuideSix Spectacular Art Exhibitions Hitting Sydney in 2023
Famous Modern masters and significant contemporary artists from Australia and abroad are being celebrated in these unmissable exhibitions.
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GuideEight Unmissable Exhibitions to See in Melbourne This Winter
Chilly winter weather is the perfect excuse to explore a few (or many) of Melbourne's world-class art exhibitions.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideImmersive and Impressive Blockbuster Exhibitions to Look Forward to Around Australia in 2022
Plan trips to dive into all things Disney, peer at Yayoi Kusama's finest in two different cities, scope out Picasso's best and fall in love with Elvis paraphernalia.
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GuideHow to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix in Tropical North Queensland
Explore beachfront markets, local art galleries and a tropical gin distillery.
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GuideTen Dazzling Melbourne Exhibitions to Look Forward to This Summer
From international art and iconic fashion to design commissions and immersive installations, here are the exhibitions serving up your summer cultural fix.
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GuideFive of the Best RISING Festival Events That You Can Still Get Tickets To
Prepare your diary now for supernatural winter forests and once-off food pop-ups.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around Australia This Autumn
Plan trips to walk over giant Monet artworks, visit Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' and explore decaying rooms filled with street art.
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GuideSeven Things to See and Do at Melbourne Art Week 2018
Head to a dance party, follow a colourful travelling work and explore an art-filled hotel.
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NewsMelbourne International Arts Festival Unveils Its Immersive Fire-Filled 2018 Program
This year's festival sees the Royal Botanic Gardens set ablaze for a series of fire shows, a sensory maze and an installation of 100 keyboards.
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NewsA World-First Showcase of National Geographic's Stunning Wildlife Photos Is Coming to Melbourne Zoo
Featuring the best 50 animal snaps from the magazine's 130-year archive, as well as an augmented reality experience.
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NewsBrisbane's GOMA Is Now Home to a Major New James Turrell Light Installation
The permanent piece now lights up the gallery from sunset to midnight every evening.
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NewsThese Beautiful Mini Wine Barrels Are the Perfect Gift for Every Art-Loving Booze Hound
They're covered in art by three female artists and filled with three litres of Victorian wine.
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NewsArtist Spencer Tunick Staged a Mass Nude Work on a Melbourne Rooftop This Morning
The Prahran Woolworths allowed the artist to access its rooftop carpark.
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GuideSix Melbourne Exhibitions That Will Warm Your Art Receptors This Winter
From Australia's first national survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander design to artworks created entirely on old luxury cars.
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NewsThis Unsettling and Immersive Shipping Container Installation Is Returning to Melbourne
The spine-chilling experience is popping up in the Queen Victoria Markets — enter if you dare (and aren't claustrophobic).
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NewsNew South Wales' South Coast Is Set to Score a Huge New Bushland Art Gallery
The new Shoalhaven facility will house more than $43 million worth of art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya, Brett Whiteley and Arthur Boyd.
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NewsThis Colourful Forest Installation Is Entirely Made Out of Discarded Plastics
Danish artist Thomas Dambo worked with hundreds of volunteers to turn three tonnes of plastic waste into art.
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NewsSydney's Legendary Rainbow Crossing Is Going to Be Joyously Reinstated
Five years after it was removed, the pride artwork will return to Taylor Square — permanently, we hope.
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GuideSix Must-See Exhibitions Happening in Australia This Winter
Featuring Picasso, Dalí, a field of 3000 flowers and an electric ode to the radical artists of post-war Germany.
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EventAustralian Heritage Festival Victoria
Fri, 18 Apr - Sun, 18 May 2025
Various locations around Victoria, Melbourne
Choose from 300 free and ticketed events that reveal the people, places and cultures that have shaped present-day Victoria.
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EventCoravin World Wine Tour: Clover
Thu, 1 May - Sat, 31 May 2025
Clover, Richmond
Sip from every bottle on the menu by the glass for one month only — no corkscrew required.
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EventDo More Than Dine
Thu, 1 May, 2025
Square One Rialto, Melbourne
Put your money where your mouth is at hospitality social enterprise Scarf's annual gala fundraising dinner.
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EventAperol Hour at Baby Pizza
Mon, 3 Mar - Sat, 31 May 2025
Baby Pizza, Richmond
From 4–6pm every day, you can treat yourself to $9.50 cocktails, $7.50 wines and $6.50 beers for two heavenly hours.
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Event29-Cheese Gnocchi at Cucinetta
Tue, 1 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Cucinetta, South Yarra
Melbourne just can't get enough of this special — this is the dish's eighth appearance, driven by insanely high popular demand.
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EventBernie Dieter's Club Kabarett
Thu, 3 Apr - Sun, 11 May 2025
Meat Market, Melbourne
Come for the no-holds-barred kabarett, then stay for the astonishing circus, gender-bending aerial and fire-breathing sideshow.
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EventCheese Wheel Pasta at Vaporetto
Tue, 1 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Vaporetto Bar & Eatery, Hawthorn
Warm up with a giant plate of pasta cooked just right and finished before your eyes in a giant cheese wheel.
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EventBanff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Wed, 14 May 2025 and Fri, 16 May 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
From snowboarding on Antarctic icebergs to wingsuit flying in the Swiss Alps, this celebration of adventurous cinema will get your pulse racing.
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EventFantastic Film Festival Australia
Thu, 24 Apr - Thu, 15 May 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Finn Wolfhard's new slasher flick, nude 'Austin Powers', a Lynne Ramsay retrospective: 2025's FFFA has them all.
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EventThe Offspring: Supercharged Worldwide in '25 Tour
Wed, 7 May - Thu, 8 May 2025
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Come out and play: The Offspring's latest arena tour with Simple Plan is hitting Australia, including Melbourne, in 2025.
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NewsArtist Spencer Tunick Will Stage a Mass Nude Work on a Melbourne Rooftop After All
The Prahran Woolworths will now allow the artist to access its rooftop carpark.
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NewsFive World-Renowned Modern Artworks to See at the NGV's New MoMA Exhibition
This collaborative exhibition features a huge 200 works, many of which have never left the walls of MoMA before.
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NewsFive Permanent Artworks in Melbourne You Should Have Seen By Now
Tick these off your arty bucket list.
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NewsA Look Inside the Huge New Modernist MoMA Exhibition at Melbourne's NGV
Over 200 modern and contemporary masterpieces from New York's MoMA have come to Australia for the very first time in this epic display.
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Artist Spencer Tunick's Plans to Stage a Mass Nude Work on a Melbourne Rooftop Have Been Quashed
The Prahran Woolworths has refused the artist access to its rooftop carpark.
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NewsMelbourne's NGV Is Opening a Brand New Contemporary Art Gallery
According to the Victorian Government, it will be the biggest contemporary art gallery in Australia.
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NewsWhy Bendigo Is the Ultimate Arts and Culture Escape This Winter
Their trams have crochet blankets, for one thing.
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NewsSeven Events Not to Miss at Chapel Street's Winter Festival of the Arts 2018
Chapel Street’s PROVOCARÉ will take over the Chapel Precinct this July with its most revealing lineup of arts and entertainment yet.
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NewsArtist Mike Parr Will Spend 72 Hours Buried Under a Hobart Road During Dark Mofo
He'll descend into a box measuring just 4.5 metres by 1.7 metres by 2.2 metres for three days, with traffic driving over the top.
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NewsA Look Inside the Creative Process of Melbourne Artist George Rose
From living a transient existence to dad clothes.
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NewsSydney's Taronga Zoo Has Been Spectacularly Illuminated for This Year's Vivid Festival
It's the first light installation of Vivid Sydney 2018 to be revealed.
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NewsA Look Inside GOMA's Weird and Wonderful 'Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection' Exhibition
Installations of a field of 3000 flowers, alien-like mushrooms and vast array of peculiar yet beautiful creatures will let you explore the intricacies of the acclaimed artist's mind.
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NewsJapan's Kaleidoscopic New Digital-Only Art Museum Is Your Next Reason to Visit Tokyo
Featuring a forest filled with lamps that respond to human interaction and a virtual tea party that pairs your hot beverage with digital blooming flowers.
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NewsFive-Time Finalist Yvette Coppersmith Has Taken Out the 2018 Archibald Prize
Her self portrait has won the prestigious competition.
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NewsArtist Spencer Tunick Will Stage a Mass Nude Photography Work in Melbourne
Hundreds of Melburnians will volunteer to strip off on Chapel Street this July.
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GuideFive Next-Level Performances to See at Next Wave Festival 2018
From freestyle dog dancing to a democratic dinner party.
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NewsThe NGV's Big Summer Exhibition Will Be an Escher-Filled Immersive Optical Illusion
The Melbourne gallery will match the Dutch artist with Japanese design studio Nendo in a mind-bending collection of art and design.
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NewsA New Exhibition of Influential Japanese Art Is Coming to Melbourne's NGV
The gallery will draw on its collection to display 19th century art from Japan, as well as the European works it influenced.
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NewsA Closer Look at 'The Lady and the Unicorn'
We get more familiar with one of the art world's greatest enigmas, currently showing at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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GuideThe Best Things to do in Melbourne This Easter Long Weekend
Navigate a maze, dance at a free five-day party and take your pup to a movie.
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NewsHow These Artists Are Working to Remove Stigma Around Daily Mental Health Issues
Address your own daily mental health needs at their pop-up vending machine until April 8.
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NewsMONA's New Exhibition Is an Immersive Ode to the Radical Artists of Post-War Germany
'Zero' will bring together — and reconstruct — works from the art collective of the same name and exhibit it for the very first time.
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NewsFive Reasons to Head to Melbourne's New Artbank Opening This Weekend
Lovers of contemporary Australian art take notice — the gallery's newest venture is one that's bound to get you up and about.
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NewsSydney Just Scored a Lovely New Public Artwork by Tracey Emin
The tiny bird sculptures dotted around the city will remind you to slow down and think about loved ones, near and far.