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NewsThe Story Behind Hyde Park's Second War Memorial
Those four bullets rising from the ground make a powerful statement.
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NewsSee the World's Last Surviving Pizza Hut Restaurants Thanks to a Sydney Photographer
Let the global Pizza Hunt begin.
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GuideSix Great Art Exhibitions Springing Up in October
Where to find aliens, Bjork and a 'colourpult'.
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NewsPeople Are Calling for Malcom Turnbull to Take Over the Troubled Arts Portfolio
However you slice it, it's a bad day to be Brandis.
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NewsArt & About Is Bringing You a Whole Year of Imaginative Encounters
Live a life less ordinary with rooftop garden parties, blue trees and water-tasting bars.
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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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GuideEight 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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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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GuideSix Exclusive Events in Surry Hills' Hollywood Quarter to Add to Your Bright Winter Lineup
During Vivid's takeover, this neighbourhood's got everything from exclusive set menus and rooftop hip hop parties, to arty installations and nightly live music.
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GuideEight of the Best Sydney Festival 2023 Events You Can Hit Up for Under $50
Discover aqua aerobics classes, immersive art exhibitions and hidden concert venues.
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GuideEnmore Road Is Expanding Its Entertainment Offerings This Spring — Here Are Our Top Picks
Expect comedy shows popping up in hair salons, Sydney Fringe Festival acts taking over bars and live music having even more rooms to ring out loud in.
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GuideSix Unmissable Exhibitions to See in Sydney This Winter
Looking to escape the wintery weather? Use this season as an excuse to explore some of Sydney's most spectacular 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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NewsSeven Unexpected Things You Can Do at Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary art fair is back, and this time, it's bursting beyond the walls of Carriageworks.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Ten Picks of the Archibald Prize
We know it's rude to stare, but we couldn't help it with these works.
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NewsThese Flat Lays of Refugee Bags Will Give You a Hit of Perspective
This new photo series actually puts the popular Instagram technique to good use.
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Check Out the Incredible Finalists for the Australian Life Photography Contest
Art and About's most beautiful snapshot into everyday Australian life.
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NewsThe Other Art Fair Comes to Sydney
Sydney will have two art fairs in September, but they're not doubling up.
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Eat Like James Bond with Henry Hargreaves' New Photo Series
None of Ian Fleming's fictional meals come shaken or stirred.
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NewsEight Unusual Takes on Portraiture by This Year’s Archibald Finalists
Archie finalists in their own words.
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GuideFive New Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your August
Inject a little colour into your wintry existence with these bold new shows.
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NewsSydney Art Week Reveals Epic Inaugural Program
Toast Sydney's latest art initiative with a cocktail by an Archibald Prize winner.
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NewsPerfect Match Brings Collaborative Street Art to the Inner West
Street artists get a blank canvas, inner west residents get their very own mural. Everyone wins.
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NewsSeven Treasures from the State Library's Inspiration by Design Exhibition
From Blinky Bill's beginnings to art deco QANTAS ads and Beatrix Potter's early Peter Rabbit drawings.
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EventDUNGEONS & DRAGONS The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 - Sat, 8 Mar 2025
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
This live 'Dungeons & Dragons' show has finally rolled into Australia for its Down Under premiere at the Sydney Opera House.
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EventWhat We Leave Behind
Sat, 4 Jan - Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, The Rocks
This evolving sculpture weaves together our collective hopes for the future of our environment.
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EventTelly Tuita: The Ta and Va of Tongpop
Sat, 4 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay
Eye-popping colour, a bold mix of cultural and urban symbolism, and a playful irreverence are the trademarks of this Tongan artist.
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EventArt Up Late: Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Thu, 9 Jan, 2025
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Manly
Take a deep dive into an exhibition exploring the wonders of water while enjoying live music, artists talks and a glass of wine.
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EventEnigma: Immersive Sound and Video Art
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay
This avant-garde revue showcasing some of Australia's most innovative artists combines video installations, sound sculptures and more.
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EventFlickerfest Sydney 2025
Fri, 17 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
Sydney's only Academy® qualifying short film festival returns for the 34th year running.
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EventSydney Symphony Under the Stars
Sat, 18 Jan, 2025
Parramatta Park, Parramatta
At this free event, you can enjoy a rousing evening of classical hits and new Australian masterworks while sitting under the summer stars.
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EventThe FRIENDS™ Experience: The One in Sydney
Sat, 5 Oct 2024 - Sun, 16 Feb 2025
The Fullerton Hotel Sydney, Sydney
Way better than rewatching all 236 episodes, again.
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EventSquid Game: The Experience
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Luna Park, Milsons Point
This immersive 'Squid Game' experience at Sydney's Luna Park will get you playing 'Red Light, Green Light' IRL.
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EventThe Sixers Sydney Smash
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025
Sydney Cricket Ground, Moore Park
Catch a rematch of the Sydney derby to see if it’s revenge or winner-take-all.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Whether it's gourmet coffee, old-school hamburgers, indie flicks or the very best Splendour in the Grass sideshows, Concrete Playground has you covered.
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NewsFive Things You're Allowed to Do at Underbelly Arts Festival This Year
Visit a bar that only serves air, stuff your face with Mary's and throw shapes at an art party.
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NewsNigel Milsom's Haunting Portrait Wins the 2015 Archibald Prize
For his Edgar Allan Poe-like portrait of Australian barrister Charles Waterstreet.
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NewsArchibald Prize 2015 Finalists and Packing Room Prize Announced
The Australian faces everyone will be talking about for the next few months.
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NewsThis Massive Ball Pit 'Beach' Is Made for Art-Loving Kidults
An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.
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GuideFive Out-of-the-Ordinary New Art Exhibitions to See in July
Bye bye Marina, hello robot attempting to eat a chicken nugget.
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NewsAndy Warhol and Ai Weiwei Double-Billed for NGV's Summer Exhibition
Two of the most groundbreaking artists and craziest cat ladies of our time, in one epic show.
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NewsUnderstanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsYoko Ono's One-Off Morning-Inspired Art Event Is Coming to MCA
Meet us on the lawn for free early morning yoga, giant mandala-making and New York-themed brekkie.
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GuideFive New Art Exhibitions Shaking Up June
Visit '70s California, the strip club and the protest barricades.
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NewsThe Australia Council Has Started Suspending Funding to Artists After Budget Cuts
Your calendar of shows to see might be looking a bit lighter a few months from now.
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NewsArtist Stanley Donwood's Retrospective Goes Beyond the Radiohead Album Covers
Now showing at Carriageworks, the artist talks collaborating with Thom Yorke and that time Glastonbury Festival just didn't understand him at all.
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NewsFive Tips for Survival in the Post-Financial Collapse Blackmarket
Scavenge some goods for post-apocalyptic trading in pvi collective's participatory performance.
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NewsArt & About Breaks Its Curfew with a Swim at Paddington Reservoir Gardens
A new art installation brings to the surface the history of Paddington's pocket-sized park.
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GuideFive Festival-Level Art Exhibitions Opening in May
On the outside of the MCA and the inside of your Radiohead albums, get into multisensory art this May.
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NewsHow Photography in Australia Got from Gilded Copper to Ubiquitous Selfies
Given the effects of extreme heat, it's remarkable we took any photos at all.
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Underbelly Arts to Launch New Supper Club
Care to dine with ACME, Underbelly artists and Young Henrys?
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NewsMeet Bondi's Backyard Art Space, Le Petit Bateau
Injecting a little bit of Paris into the streets of Sydney, Le Petit Bateau is your new favourite suburban gallery/studio.
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NewsSandro Miller's 'Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich' Exhibition Is Coming to Sydney
Last year's viral news story, this year's must-see show.
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NewsEnter the Art Gallery of NSW's #myaustraliais Competition to Win a $2000 Canon Voucher
To tie in with the Photograph and Australia exhibition, the AGNSW is asking you to step up to the viewfinder.
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NewsYou Can Now Get Interest-Free Loans to Buy Art in Sydney
Home loans might be out of reach for today's Sydneysider, but at least we can afford beautiful art.
