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Art & design
His life was filled with strangers’ photos. Yours might be among them
Alan Adler – aka Melbourne’s photobooth man – didn’t believe in throwing anything away. A new exhibition shows why.
- by Simmone Howell
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Edgy or offensive? How these early-2000s internet creators kept webcomics alive
Webcomics are well past their peak, but Cyanide & Happiness is still deep in the game. Here’s how it has managed to keep up with the non-stop beast that is the internet.
- by Nell Geraets
Fantauzzo’s new gallery – and the hidden work Asher Keddie calls ‘heartbreaking’
He’s received plaudits – and brickbats – for his photorealistic paintings, but Vincent Fantauzzo has a new mission: “To Jamie Oliver the art world”.
- by Konrad Marshall
‘Everyone wants a piece of Barry’: Humphries’ art hits auction highs
The Australian sale of 98 objects packed up from the Sydney home of Barry Humphries netted almost half a million dollars in a flurry of early bidding.
- by Linda Morris
She was the face of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. But there was more to Dora Maar than a woman crushed
The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters take centre stage.
- by Linda Morris
If it was up to this artist, all his creations would be Untitled
The Welsh artist doesn’t lose sleep over people misunderstanding his work.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Sydney-based artist wins $100,000 prize with work drawing on Queer Archives
Jack Ball researched newspaper clippings about transgender lives between the 1950s and 1970s for their Ramsay Art Prize-winning work Heavy Grit.
- by Linda Morris
The lucky dip art fair where you can pick up an Archibald-winning artist for $100
The Incognito Art Show offers art works for $100 a piece – but you won’t know who the artist is until you’ve bought the piece.
- by Linda Morris
The Sydney ‘blocks-buster’ showing a world where humans are replaced by Lego
Lego mini-figures are the face of a new Sydney exhibition in which tiny worlds have been created inside a rusted Volkswagen Beetle, a jukebox and a museum’s collector’s cabinet.
- by Linda Morris
ADHD, limited sleep and Coke Zero: What fuels artist Emma Addams
A new documentary cracks open the chaotic, hyper-creative mind of one of Australia’s most interesting artists.
- by Michael Lallo
Major gallery misses out as Sydney’s biggest arts festival heads west
The Biennale of Sydney is shifting focus to western Sydney in a program partly inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison.
- by Linda Morris
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