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Break in the clouds

Emanuel Phillips Fox's 1900 painting Autumn showers has been restored, bringing the artwork’s colour, depth and vivacity back to the fore.

Conservation Collection Look magazine Painting

Still from Spacked out 無人駕駛 2000, photo: courtesy of Mei Ah

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Film series: Dotcom baby 千禧宝贝

Discmans, DV cams and dial up: welcome to Dotcom baby, a film series exploring rites of passage circa Y2K.

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Encounter the cyber futurism of Cao Fei

Cao Fei discusses her exhibition, which immerses you in a world of neon, street dance, and pop music; a city that is both familiar and distorted, real and virtual.

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Exhibitions Time-based art Cao Fei: My City is Yours

The artist Lee Ufan stands in front of a large stone boulder that sits on sheet metal

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The life-force of expression

Artist Lee Ufan shares his philosophical approach and pursuit of hope, which is evident in his exhibition Quiet Resonance at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Exhibitions Artists Painting Sculpture Lee Ufan

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Restless legs

Ahead of his exhibition, Mitch Cairns talks to Tony Magnusson about poetry, puzzles, ‘perfume paintings’ and not working ‘9 to 5’.

Artists Collection Interview Look magazine Mitch Cairns

An artist standing in front of two paintings

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The art that made me: Emily Galicek

Emily Galicek discusses works in the Art Gallery collection by Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Tala Madani, Elizabeth Pulie and Mitch Cairns.

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Magritte and the bowler-hatted man

Why does a mysterious bowler-hatted figure appear so often in René Magritte’s paintings?

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Exhibitions Artists Painting Magritte

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Magritte and the uncanny

Renowned for his deadpan, realist style, René Magritte revealed ordinary objects and everyday settings to be more mysterious than we could ever have imagined.

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Exhibitions Artists Painting Magritte