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Dante Meets Art Deco: A Designer on the Ideas Behind Sydney’s Italo-Aussie Hotel Morris

The brief? Bring drama (and the Divine Comedy) to Sydney’s Pitt Street. In partnership with Accor Hotels, we chat to Tom Mark Henry’s Carla Matias about the design, inspiration and ideas behind Hotel Morris.

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See Magritte, Julie Mehretu and Cao Fei at MCA and AGNSW With Art Pass

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The Chinese artist connects sister cities Guangzhou and Sydney through a wormhole of nostalgia and speculative futures in work that is more experience than exhibition. (And her retro metropolis re-creates Sydney’s beloved Marigold restaurant.)
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In her new major exhibition at MCA Australia, Julie Mehretu – one of the most influential painters working today – revels in abstraction.
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The biggest exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work ever mounted in Australia is every bit as fanciful as you’d expect it to be – and shows exactly how the Japanese artist became a global icon: from her speckled Infinity Net paintings and her radical fashion, through to those world-renowned mirrored rooms and spotty playgrounds.
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Studio Visit: Glenn Barkley’s Striking Ceramics Are Filled With Fascinating Cultural References
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ACMI’s Immersive New Exhibition Explores World-Building and Re-Imagination in Film and Beyond
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Picnic in Sunday Reed’s Heritage, Art-Filled Gardens at Heide Museum of Modern Art
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art & design

Dante Meets Art Deco: A Designer on the Ideas Behind Sydney’s Italo-Aussie Hotel Morris

The brief? Bring drama (and the Divine Comedy) to Sydney’s Pitt Street. In partnership with Accor Hotels, we chat to Tom Mark Henry’s Carla Matias about the design, inspiration and ideas behind Hotel Morris.

article

It’s Prime Time for Jake Clark

event

See Magritte, Julie Mehretu and Cao Fei at MCA and AGNSW With Art Pass

The latest

My City Is Yours: Cao Fei Builds Strange New Worlds From Familiar Foundations

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Finding Beauty in Cacophony: The Dazzling Works of Julie Mehretu

First Look: Yayoi Kusama at NGV is a Polka-Dotted Paradise With a Trippy New Infinity Room, Giant Pumpkins and More

Studio Visit: Glenn Barkley’s Striking Ceramics Are Filled With Fascinating Cultural References

ACMI’s Immersive New Exhibition Explores World-Building and Re-Imagination in Film and Beyond

Molto Bello: Take a Look at Timeless Italian Design From the 20th Century at Heide

Studio Visit: By Dave Crafts Timeless Timber Furniture Seen in Melbourne Bars and Restaurants

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Picnic in Sunday Reed’s Heritage, Art-Filled Gardens at Heide Museum of Modern Art