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Noted Indigenous artist is takin' out the kitsch

Indigenous artist Tony Albert has launched the annual Aboriginalia Appeal to coincide with the opening of his solo exhibition Not a Souvenir.

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‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art

Not a Souvenir at the MCA highlights the commodification and misrepresentation of First Nations people – and invites the public to reckon with their complicity

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AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?

Surrealists believed in the power of dreams. Inspired by Freud’s theories of the unconscious and dream-work, André Breton saw the irrationality of dreams as an artistic method capable of revealing new, revolutionary ways of being.

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'Big levers' need pulling as arts struggle despite aid

Mounting pressure on the arts have been acknowledged by federal and state ministers as even the sector's full-time professionals struggle to make ends meet.

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At Primavera 2025, young Australian artists consider making art in the age of commodities

Primavera is the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual spring exhibition featuring selected Australian artists under 35. This year, curator Tim Riley Walsh asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.

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Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

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Venice row risks Aust's reputation, major gallery says

The Museum of Contemporary Art has become the first major gallery to publicly back the artistic team selected for Venice, then sensationally dumped.

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Cash shortage forces major gallery to charge $20 entry

The Museum of Contemporary Art has long been free to the public, but it says a lack of government funding means it has to charge $20 entry fees.

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Liberation of abstraction embraced in troubled times

Acclaimed US painter Julie Mehretu is holding her first exhibition in the southern hemisphere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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Olafur Eliasson's new light sculptures illuminate Los Angeles

Olafur Eliasson's new exhibition, 'Open,' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, includes 11 new pieces

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Giant Insta-worthy sculpture to bring art to the people

A sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price will be installed outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, so big it will be visible from across Sydney Harbour.

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The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour

In the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, photography is a type of embalmment, a tactic of preservation, and an instrument of experimentation.

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‘I make reality out of fantasy’: Hiroshi Sugimoto on fooling the world with his camera

As his survey opens in Sydney, the legendary photographer talks about using light and shadow to bring the dead back to life, and why he turned down a job from Bono

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Artist builds alternative worlds in MCA survey show

Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone at the Museum of Contemporary Art has everything from solar-powered installations to bioluminescent coral.

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Tacita Dean on Oppenheimer and analogue film: ‘If Hollywood sees profit it will keep film alive’

A new exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the artist’s recent output – including her most personal work to date

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How the poetically-charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time

The first time I saw one of Tacita Dean’s monumental film-works it was by chance.

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The persistence of nature, the movement of water, the rigidity of walls: photographer Zoe Leonard documents the US–Mexico border

For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting.

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Here’s how you can get free or discounted passes to local museums under new Chicago Public Library program

The new digital museum program allows patrons to make reservations at up to 64 cultural institutions in the city and suburbs — more than triple the destinations the library offered through its old physical kids museum passport program.

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The National 4: major survey of contemporary Australian art invites a closer look

Now open across four of Sydney’s major art venues, the biennial exhibition seeks to ‘broaden the idea of what Australian art is’

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