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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.
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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.

Best art. Claire Lambe, ‘Witnessing Bacon’, installation view at Sarah Scout Presents. A large tapestry based on a photo of Bacon’s messy studio, hanging against a violet wall with a saddle shaped seat in front.
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The best art I saw in 2024 across 11 cities and over 200 exhibitions

A note of appreciation to all the artists and artworks that left a mark on my year.

Yayoi Kusama in 'Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict', 1978, installation view at NGV International. An old Asian woman with bright red bob and red and white polka dot top, gesturing and singing on screen. Text in the subtitle reads "Tear down the gate of hallucinations".
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Exhibition review: Yayoi Kusama, NGV International

An overdue retrospective in the name of love, Yayoi Kusama has got little (time) to offer.

Installation view of Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian', 2019, on display in NGV Triennial 2023. A single banana duct-taped to a white wall.
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Controversial duct-taped banana that drew crowds at NGV Triennial could fetch over US$1 million

Maurizio Cattelan's banana artwork, 'Comedian' will hit the auction block five years after it was purchased – the price is…

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