Tag: Culture
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Venice Biennale: Cate Blanchett and George Brandis open $7.5m Australian pavilion
Black box part-funded by Australia Council houses Fiona Hall’s ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and nods to the arrival of European settlers on Indigenous land
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Rem Koolhaas crafts a spectacular ‘city of art’ for Prada in Milan
A new Roman Polanski film is being shown, Jeff Koons and Donald Judd artworks are strewn about, and Wes Anderson’s designed the kitsch cafe … in a scruffy industrial corner of Milan, Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada have made a dazzling art space, so vast it’s practically a city. Oliver Wainwright is in awe
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Met’s China: Through the Looking Glass show presents a fantasy of the far east
Ahead of its annual gala, the Met’s Costume Institute risks accusations of cultural appropriation to explore how ideas of China have inspired fashion, art and film
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Berlin’s Gallery Weekend: a heady maze of former warehouses and power plants
One of Germany’s biggest art events saw 47 galleries open this year, giving visitors a taste of the city’s experimental and international creative scene
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Spanish film festival: our top five picks
Visiting eight Australian cities, 2015’s program has comedies, thrillers and documentaries from across the Spanish-speaking world – who’s for tapas?
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Margiela documentary: The Artist is Absent – what do we learn about the Greta Garbo of fashion?
He has never been photographed, is very tall and nobody know what he looks like. But that’s pretty much all we know about the fashion designer Margiela. So how on earth did they make a film about him?