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Gym classes have a natural kinship with fascism
This exhibition at Tasmania’s MONA reminds us how dance classes often require participants to follow instructions barked out by a dominatrix in Lycra.
Stillness and presence mediate noise around us
Smartphone have had a devastating effect on the mental health of individuals. This meditative exhibition could be the antidote to modern life.
MONA’s latest exhibition, meditation on identity
Robert Andrew is walking a line between two cultures – his Western and modern ancestry and his Indigenous roots.
Portraits of the Holocaust
Sidney Nolan worked on a series of portraits of war criminal Adolf Eichmann and victims of the Holocaust, in images that are being shown for the first time.
Looks good on paper
Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, daughters of newspaper proprietors, caught the fashion for linoprint and Japanese printmaking.
Was Picasso a faux communist?
The famed artist’s decision to join the Communist Party was a puzzling one for several reasons.
How Picasso drained the energy of his mistresses
So many of the artist’s portraits are the images of women reduced to husks by the creative will that they have nourished.
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Alive with hedonism
There is something quintessentially Sydney about Colin Lanceley’s art, in its celebration of pleasure, its aspiration to happiness, and also in its restless activity and animation.
Ancient forms, modern stories
An exhibition of contemporary Indian art at the National Gallery of Victoria shows just how much the world has changed since Covid-19.
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