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Installation view, Passage: The Art of Atong Atem, featuring from left, Atong Atem’s As Above and A facet for every turn, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross.
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Atong Atem’s Passage is a powerful act of cultural reclamation

Atong Atem's major survey exhibition at NGV Australia navigates the power to author one’s own image.

Installation view, Margaret Preston, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: Phoebe Powell.
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Margaret Preston retrospective offers a rethink for our times

Twenty years after Margaret Preston’s last retrospective, the NGV in Melbourne presents a compelling look at a complicated modernist and…

The Institute of Modern Art's Platform artists for 2027 with, from left, Daniel Sherington, Amanda Bennetts, Prita Tina Yeganeh, Savannah Jarvis and Adam Cole. Photo: Josef Ruckli.
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The early-career artists making it onto the biggest stages

ArtsHub speaks to five artists coming through initiatives to spotlight and elevate early-career talent.

Two elderly woman looking at a display of a dozen kimonos hanging in a gallery with white walls.
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Exhibition review: Kimono, NGV International

The enduring allure of kimonos through a chronological timeline.

An installation of different free standing lights and a few on tan-coloured panels inside a space with high ceiling.
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Exhibition review: 100 Lights, Melbourne Design Week, Meat Market Stables

Enter a world (well three galleries-worth) of illumination in this dedicated exhibition of light.

A person looking into a mirrored cube. Around the figure every surface is filled with black polka dots on a yellow background.
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Kusama breaks record to be crowned queen in Australian exhibition history

NGV’s ‘Yayoi Kusama’ breaks exhibition attendance record and opening hours are extended until midnight for final weekend.

Installation shot of an exhibition with paintings and garments on mannequins on both sides. The walls are painted an ultramarine blue, and large text “NO” is installed on the back wall.
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Exhibition review: Floribunda, Bunjil Place

David Sequeira’s exhibition ‘Floribunda’ showcases a long-held fascination with flowers while asking us to live in the present.

Melbourne Design Week 2025 lighting designs, featuring a photo of four design objects with lighting tubes that appear like furniture.
Features

First look: what’s on at Melbourne Design Week 2025

ArtsHub picks some program highlights at this year’s Melbourne Design Week, 15-25 May – 100 Lights, Beyond the Grave and…

A still life painting of roses.
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Over 150 works from the NGV to be showcased in substantial new exhibition: Floribunda (2025)

Showcasing one of the NGV's largest loans, 'Floribunda' will bring a whole new world of flowers to Narre Warren.

Model and crew backstage for the Melbourne Fashion Festival. A tall female model with pale skin and red lips is wearing a red satin dress with a large floral feature over her chest, while the crew adjusts something around her ear.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2025

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, design weeks and makers' markets.

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