Shapeless, feeble and uninspiring: why is the NGV Australia exhibiting Cats and Dogs?
This exhibition about the relationship between man and his best fur friends is far from – to use one of the gallery’s puns – ‘purrfect’.
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This could be the most beautiful exhibition
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Truth about Archibald Prize? It’s full of bad portraits
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