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• ‘There’s a huge art culture here’: can a $60m gallery break Gold Coast stereotypes?

  04-05-2021 19:30
  
  Pronounced ‘hotter’ and featuring a rooftop bar called the Exhibitionist, the gallery leans into the region’s breezy character – but its ambitions are serious
  Contemporary artist Ali Bezer believes in a version of the Gold Coast that doesn’t appear on postcards. Her home town, she says, is more complex than its glossy facade suggests.Bezer’s newest installation, an undulating aluminium and bitumen sculpture called I Can Hear Water (2021), will show as part of
  
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• ‘It’s about looking around us’: New York’s Frieze art fair tackles social justice

  04-05-2021 17:52
  
  At this year’s iteration of the renowned art fair, artists and institutions are highlighting the importance of art that helps toward social changeWhen Sarah Elizabeth Lewis stepped onstage for her Ted Talk in 2017, little did she know how much she would help bridge the gap between art and social policy.“How do images alter our sense of justice?” she asked. Related: 'You are so missed': voicemails remember people of color murdered by law enforcementContinue reading...
  
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