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Japanese Breakfast is the musical project of songwriter Michelle Zauner.

June will not be beach weather for Sydney. Here’s what you should do instead

Sydney’s arts and culture scene has plenty of hot-ticket indoor events that don’t require gumboots, an umbrella or an impossible-to-refold rain poncho.

  • Nicole Elphick

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Parramatta’s Powerhouse Museum is being targeted to open September 2026.

As Parramatta’s Powerhouse Museum reaches full height, secret lifted on target opening date

Chris Minns inadvertently revealed the date during a press conference at which he announced a $5 million donation to the museum.

  • Anthony Segaert
Then and now: After George Frankland, Governor Arthur’s Proclamation to the Aborigines c. 1828-30; left; Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, Baratjala 2022 (detail).

This show changes everything you think you know about Indigenous art

Marcia Langton started working on the Potter’s new exhibition 10 years ago. She doesn’t care if you don’t like it, but she does want you to learn.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
One of the exhibits in the Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness show.

I see dead people: Preserved human bodies heading to Brisbane

The Body Works exhibition will feature human cadavers preserved through the process of “plastination”.

  • Nick Dent
China’s terracotta warriors.

Museum’s biggest exhibition yet will be a windfall for WA

The Perth public – and a landslide of anticipated visitors – will soon be able to see some of the world’s greatest ancient archeological finds at Boola Bardip.

  • Holly Thompson
U2 perform during opening night at the Sphere, showcasing the incredible interior screen.

Price tag for opening of Powerhouse Parramatta edges towards $50 million

The museum has locked in three major artists for its opening program, including a British stage designer associated with U2’s Las Vegas concerts.

  • Linda Morris
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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
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

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