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Details from Jonathan Zawada’s Tall Tales images: Back in the Game (left and right) and Ice Shelf.

An Australian artist turned Thom Yorke’s music into art. Expect magic

Jonathan Zawada had always loved the Radiohead frontman’s music. Their collaboration brought him to tears.

  • Michael Dwyer

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Coming to Vivid: David McDiarmid’s Kiss of Light.

Sydney Opera House celebrates work of late artist with a kiss of light

A tribute to David McDiarmid, artist and HIV/AIDS activist, will illuminate the Sydney Opera House sails for Vivid Sydney.

  • Linda Morris
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
A work by Sidney Nolan inspired by the Ravensbrück women’s camp.

These works by Sidney Nolan have never been displayed. Now they’re heading to Melbourne

In 1962, the artist visited Auschwitz. The paintings he created afterwards have been brought together in a new exhibition.

  • Will Cox
George Gittoes with his Blake Prize winning painting of a preacher during the Rwandan massacre that has gone on display at the National Gallery.

How a preacher’s courage amid a brutal massacre inspired this artist

Thirty years ago, George Gittoes arrived at a Rwandan refugee camp amid unimaginable violence. But he discovered an oasis of calm in the face of brutality.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue
Death of a Unicorn is a bonkers film about killer unicorns, but it’s drawing on real-life source material.

This bonkers film about killer unicorns is less far-fetched than you’d think

Death of a Unicorn is inspired by real-life artworks that still perplex art historians to this day.

  • Nell Geraets
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Rosemary Lee with her winning work at the National Art School.

‘Very shocked’: How a Sydney artist’s odd inspiration won her a major prize

Sydney artist Rosemary Lee has scooped the biennial Dobell Drawing Prize. This is how she did it.

  • Nick Galvin

‘We are not chickens’: the cry that inspired a show of defiance

Colonialism is under scrutiny as artists in this year’s TarraWarra Biennial unleash works of freedom, feminism and protest.

  • Tiarney Miekus
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

‘No trace’: Dissident artist told his work has been removed from Hong Kong billboard

Australia-based artist Badiucao said his four-second video work was designed to test “the freedom-of-speech situation in Hong Kong”.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

Artist tests freedom of speech in Hong Kong with daring billboard work

A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.

  • Elizabeth Flux

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