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Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi

Despite the perceived outrage at Khaled Sabsabi’s depiction of Hassan Nasrallah in his 2007 work You, Australian art has long made subjects of outlaws and questionable figures. And it is all the richer for it.

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The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80

Eighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how blindsided Max Harris, Angry Penguins’ precocious young editor, must have been.

The Conversation

Brett Whiteley and Sidney Nolan works among former Melbourne lord mayor’s collection to be sold at auction

Twenty artworks from Ron Walker’s deceased estate to go under the hammer, along with seven Arthur Boyd paintings

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Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha Kaechele

The paintings made global headlines after being moved to Mona’s female toilets in protest against a court ruling. But they were never real to begin with

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'The river's still here': Sidney Nolan's lasting masterpiece

The artist created his masterpiece in just three weeks in 1964.

The Canberra Times

Afternoon Update: Optus outage causes nationwide frustration; ketamine use hits record peak; and global wine production falls

Optus is gradually restoring services after a nationwide outage, but the cause remains unclear

The Guardian - AU

‘Completely unique’: two early Sidney Nolan paintings to go up for sale for first time in almost 75 years

Canvases going to auction were part of Nolan’s breakthrough exhibition in 1949, described as a ‘pivotal moment’ in Australian art

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Possession and devotion inform Sarah Krasnostein's compelling reinterpretation of Peter Carey's art

Sarah Krasnostein’s On Peter Carey is the 12th instalment of Black Inc.’s highly readable series, Writers on Writers. The series is nicely conceived, as it pitches Australian writers not just against each other, but across a generational divide.

The Conversation

An imaginative unfolding of a life, a new play asks: would Sidney Nolan have become the artist he became if not for Sunday Reed?

Review: Sunday, directed by Sarah Goodes, Melbourne Theatre Company

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Sunday review – a masterful and moving portrait of a woman who railed against conformity

This world-class production anchored by superb central performances brings Sunday Reed back to shimmering, incandescent life

The Guardian - AU

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

The Guardian - AU

Sidney Nolan's search for paradise

This is a blockbuster - minus the razzmatazz - that brings together Nolan's best work.

The Canberra Times

On Sidney Nolan, the painter who re-envisaged the Australian landscape

Review: Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art

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