A Sydney art dealer bought the portrait of Josephine Bonaparte, stolen in 2014, for the bargain price of $250 on the online marketplace.
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The End of the Art World as We Know It
An international art world that has called persistently for radical socioeconomic change is now faced with it.
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Relocation of Sydney Museum Could Cost Over $890 Million
But that’s not all. Reports now reveal that the museum’s February fashion fundraiser ball operated at a loss of over $137,000 on top of last year’s deficit of $7.4 million.
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In Protest of Gentrification, Sydney Residents Turn Towers into Light Displays
Hundreds of residents of Waterloo estate have installed colorful lights in their windows to call attention to government plans to raze and redevelop the area.
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Meditative Light Art with Dark Undertones
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
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Largest Urban Art Festival in the Southern Hemisphere Open Nov 4
Other than having a name that sounds like it could be a gay bar in a seedy part of town, Sydney’s Cockatoo Island is going to be hosting the largest urban art festival in the southern hemisphere starting November 4 and continuing until to December 11.
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The INTERNETworked Bridge: Connected But Unequal
BEIJING — I moved to China almost a year ago now, into a country where I knew no one and where even the internet was foreign. I pulled away from my main social circle geographically, but did what I could do stay connected via the internet and phone.
And yet, just as I turned to the internet for social connection, I also realized it was increasingly difficult to rely on my usual circles. Timezones, the Great Firewall and the weak internet connection in my neighborhood all made me realize that the utopian ideal of global connection was far from being achieved.