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Creative Australia has dumped artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation's entrant to the Venice Biennale, after questions were raised in parliament about his work, including this 2006 piece titled Thank you very much.
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Khaled Sabsabi's Thank you very much.

Creative Australia has dumped artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation's entrant to the Venice Biennale, after questions were raised in parliament about his work, including this 2006 piece titled Thank you very much.

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Crowds gather at the Mona Lisa.

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  • Sylvie Corbet
From left: Frida Kahlo; detail of Trevor Nickolls’ Brush With Lore; detail from Nusra Latif Qureshi’s Did you Come Here to Find History?.

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Having avoided the “macho” side of street art, Drez was keen to take his work to a wider audience.

Are street artists like Banksy and Drez really still on the outside?

Some of their faces remain hidden, but a new exhibition brings the biggest names of street art in from the cold.

  • John Bailey

The world’s most joyous artist brings her message of hope to town

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  • Lindy Percival
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Magritte’s The Dominion of Light, 1954, on show at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Spot the difference: A $185m surrealist masterpiece and its sister displayed here

In 1954, surrealist Rene Magritte painted four variations of an intriguing work bringing together night and day. One just sold for a record-breaking price, the other is on rare show in Australia.

  • Linda Morris

This ACMI exhibition shows us the tomorrow we want is ours to make

The Future and Other Fictions dares to imagine what might be to come for us all.

  • John Bailey
Molto Bello is an exhibition of Italian design at Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Imagine Melbourne without coffee and Vespas. Here’s why you can’t ...

The Italian influence on our homes and city is celebrated in Heide’s new exhibition.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Art Gallery of NSW’s upcoming summer blockbuster features works by Belgium surrealist, Rene Magritte.

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Bowler hats weren’t Rene Magritte’s only recognisable motif, as a summer blockbuster opening on Saturday shows.

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