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Jacky Cheng, Imaginary Homelands, 2025, installation view, The Neighbour at the Gate, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2025. Image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Peter Morgan

A new exhibition is a thoughtful examination of the lasting relationship between Asia and Australia

The Neighbour at the Gate at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery presents a thoughtful examination of the consequences when good neighbours become good friends.
Anne Zahalka, The Artist (self portrait),1988, from the series Resemblance II. Silver dye bleach print 50.0 x 50.0 cm. Courtesy of the artist represented by ARC ONE Gallery (Melbourne) and Dominik Mersch Gallery (Sydney).

The stunning photographs of Australian artist Anne Zahalka: remembering the past and recording the present

In 1986 the Australia Council paid for a young photographer to live for a year in Berlin. Anne Zahalka’s subsequent career shows this was money well spent.
Public protests forced a backdown on a proposed merger of university art schools, but their value to cities is still being underestimated. Joel Carrett/AAP

Why arts schools matter, not just for art’s sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities

Art schools are emerging globally as very powerful instruments of urban renewal. In a time of transformation, Sydney must learn to tap into the value of having multiple art colleges.

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