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    Five Fierce February Exhibitions You Really Shouldn't Miss

    Get lost in the surreal, the hallucinogenic and the reimagined this month.

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    You Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)

    One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.

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    Buy an Original Banksy and Get This Free House Thrown in

    Three bedrooms, a patio and a mural by the world's most famous street artist.

  • Guide

    The Ten Best Things to See at Midsumma Festival 2016

    This year's program boasts everything from rollercoasters to water polo.

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    Whistler's Mother Has Arrived in Australia

    The NGV exhibition will mark the first time she's visited our shores.

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    Win a Fancy Art Weekend Trip for Two to Sydney

    Have a fancy weekend of fine dining, Grayson Perry and Monet in Sydney.

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    Ai Weiwei Sets Up Studio in Lesbos to Draw Attention to Refugee Crisis

    Plans include a memorial for refugees who lost their lives at sea.

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    Five Late-Night Art Adventures Happening in Sydney This Summer

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    An Epic Degas Exhibition Is Coming to Australia

    The French Impressionist who took us into bars, saloons and backstage.

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    New Artworks by Banksy Focus on the Plight of Syrian Refugees

    Artwork depicting Steve Jobs, son of a Syrian migrant, to be preserved by city of Calais.

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    Ai Weiwei Gifts His Lego Installation to the National Gallery of Victoria

    The work pays tribute to Australia's most outspoken human rights activists.

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    Five Must-See Works At The NGV's Epic Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei Exhibition

    Two of the most significant artists of the last two centuries, one extraordinary exhibition. 

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    Hotham Street Ladies like their ham made out of sugar.

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    Annie Leibovitz's Powerful 2016 Pirelli Calendar Is One Big 'Yassss Queen'

    Featuring a whole year of kickass women, from Amy Schumer to Patti Smith.

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    Flys in the face of fiddly little brick manufacturer.

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    This new photo series actually puts the popular Instagram technique to good use.

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    Art and About's most beautiful snapshot into everyday Australian life.

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    For his Edgar Allan Poe-like portrait of Australian barrister Charles Waterstreet.

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    An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.

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    Two of the most groundbreaking artists and craziest cat ladies of our time, in one epic show.

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