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Yayoi Kusama’s The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Cover the Universe at the NGV.

‘Five MCGs’ worth of people’: Yayoi Kusama exhibition breaking records at NGV

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the NGV has drawn huge numbers of people during its four-month run.

  • Madeleine Heffernan

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How did Skibidi Toilet end up in a contemporary art gallery?

How Skibidi Toilet made it into this prestigious Brisbane gallery

Australia’s oldest contemporary art space is hosting a world-first exhibit of the viral video series that’s amassed more than 80 million views. 

  • Neesha Sinnya
Polly Borland, Portrait of Martin Grant, 1985 (detail).

How a teenage drop-out went on to dress the world’s most famous women

With his “amazing maths brain”, Melbourne-born designer Martin Grant became a star of global fashion.

  • Janice Breen Burns
Street art in Frankston.

‘Highest density of quality artworks I’ve ever seen’: Welcome to Frankston

From hidden laneways to towering walls, the suburb has become a living canvas. It will host a free street party this weekend.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Frida Kahlo in a 1939 photograph.

Forever cool: why we still can’t get enough of Frida Kahlo

Feminist, fashion icon, revolutionary, survivor: the Mexican artist’s greatest creation was her own defiant self.

  • Janice Breen Burns
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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“They’re both performative, joyous places to be in,” says Zaachariaha Fielding of his art and music.

We saw him dazzle Eurovision. Now this singer is electrifying art

Zaachariaha Fielding’s music was already wowing the world long before he picked up a paintbrush.

  • Suzie Keen
Crowds gather at the Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa will have her own room under a major renovation of the Louvre

The most visited museum in the world is also the most overcrowded, and then there are problems in the roof and outdated facilities.

  • 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?.

The exhibitions you won’t want to miss in 2025

International works, sculpture, Indigenous art and more: 2025 will be another great year for Melbourne art lovers.

  • Tiarney Miekus
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

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