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Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night', landscape depicting a blue swirly sky over a city. One of the artworks featured in the 3D IMAX film, 'Lasting Impressions'.
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Film review: Lasting Impressions, IMAX Melbourne

Impressionist artworks explored through immersive 3D and animation, and set to music by Debussy, Ravel, Piaf and others.

Sara Cwynar, ‘Red Film’, 2018, to be presented by Cooper Cole at the Melbourne Art Fair 2025. The photo shows four female-presenting figures dressed in red collared shirts. Two are sitting while two stand behind them, with their hands on the heads of those seated.
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Melbourne Art Fair 2025 program revealed, focused on being female-led and First Peoples art and design

Programming across gallery booths, video, installation, and an early-glimpse showcase, Melbourne Art Fair 2025 is driving new purpose.

Bek Schilling and Sean Donehue in 'Bearded'. Shilling is on the left and has dyed platinum blonde hair with pink tips. Thye are mock playing and holding Sean Donehue's mouth open.
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Musical review: Bearded, Theatre Works

A queer musical set in the middle of Australia’s 2017 marriage equality debate.

A large copy of Alison Lester's picture book 'Imagine Live' is placed in the middle of the stage, with two actors between it and various paraphrenalia from the book.
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Theatre review: IMAGINE LIVE, Arts Centre Melbourne

Based on Alison Lester's popular picture book, this production works for all the family.

Billie Marten, a singer/musician who has long blonde hair. She is holding a guitar and singing.
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Music review: Billie Marten, Corner Hotel

Billie Marten, the British folk singer-songwriter, shone bright despite a heckling crowd. 

Three men sitting at a table in front of a stable door in a production of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'
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Theatre review: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Another tried and true staging of a Shakespeare comedy from The Australian Shakespeare Company.

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Exhibition review: The Charge That Binds, ACCA

Uniting disparate strands of ecologically-engaged art, the exhibition covers vast geographical distances and pressing topics.

black and white headshot of young Caucasian man with intense eyes. James Simpson.
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Vale James Simpson

The musical director, arranger and orchestrator was described as 'a remarkable, talented, humble, passionate, kind soul' by Casey Donovan.

Two men and a woman dress up as three little pigs. They have pink pants on and pig ears. They are wearing a red, green and blue top respectively in 'The 3 Little Pigs.'
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Musical review: The 3 Little Pigs, National Theatre Melbourne

An adequate production, but one that could have been better.

A red car installation that is perched on one side on grass.
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Installation review: BIG Sculpture, St Kilda Trail

A perfect summer's day activity: public art finding in a beachside location.

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