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Rebel Heart celebrates true stories of love that defied the status quo. Photo: Eugene Hyland / State Library Victoria.
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Rebel Heart review: SLV's new exhibition is a love letter to love letters (and librarians)

From queer bushrangers to fanmail and mixtapes, Rebel Heart asks what we lose when intimacy goes digital.

The artHITects with their winning artwork Wambuul (Proclamation Park Bathurst), winner of the 2025 Environmental Art & Design Prize – Art category. Photo: Shane Rozario/Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
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It’s time: why you should enter the 2026 Environmental Art & Design Prize

Winning the prestigious Environmental Art & Design Prize marked a pivotal moment for radical artist/architect duo, the artHITects.

J Davies, All at Once, 2026. Two-channel digital video, colour, stereo, 33 min 52 sec. Installation view, All the World’s Memories, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
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All the World’s Memories review: an exhibition that's impossible to forget

All the World’s Memories is a fantastic exhibition at UNSW Galleries that celebrates the value of our collective and personal…

Melbourne Art Fair 2025. Photo: Supplied.
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Melbourne Art Fair designs a new future

After coming back from near failure in 2016, Melbourne Art Fair is now rebranding for a more hybrid future. But…

Carsten Nicolai's installation Bausatz Noto (1998) at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb. A dark skinned woman wearing a red leather jacket and headphones listens to music at a desk of turntables. A rack of brightly coloured vinyl records stands behind her.
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London's The Vinyl Factory coming to ACMI for RISING

The Vinyl Factory: Reverb is an expansive exhibition about the grooves music has left in history and culture.

Thelma 2024 (detail) by National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Finalist, Em Jensen | opportunities and awards
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 16 to 22 February 2026

Closing soon: amazing opportunities for musicians, photographers, poets and literary journals.

The late Jon Kudelka. A plump, smiling fair-skinned man with short brown hair and a short beard. He is smiling, wears a plaid shirt, and sits in front of a colourful yellow backdrop.
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Vale Tasmanian cartoonist and artist Jon Kudelka

Remembered and admired for his Walkley-winning political cartoons, as well as his illustrations and anti-Tasmanian tourism stance, Kudelka died on…

LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s. Image: Supplied.
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LOVING review: a photographic window into the queer past

Drawn from the collection of an American couple, LOVING is a touching Qtopia exhibition of historic queer photography that pushes…

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters: the silhouettes of two people standing in a darkened space looking at an Aboriginal dot painting shown spot-lit on a black gallery wall.
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Why National Museum’s Songlines exhibition is striking kinship connections in India

A landmark exhibition of First Nations art and culture is currently finding special resonance with audiences in India.

Francis Carmody in a workshed at Burnley. Photo: James Henry.
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Fed Square's new public artworks compress art, science and time

Fed Square's Test Garden artist-in-residence Francis Carmody has created a new series of public works.

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