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The best art this month

From blockbuster exhibitions to outdoor spectaculars, here's your hit list for November.

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Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass

Venetian glass is known across the world for its vibrant colour, elaborate designs and exquisite craftsmanship.

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Where to find the best street art in Melbourne

When you think Melbourne, some of the words that come to mind surely must be 'coffee', 'laneways' and 'street art'.

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Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines

After the success of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei, the NGV is bringing together another pair of art legends.

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The best art galleries in Melbourne

Take in blockbuster exhibitions, local shows and state-of-the-art installations at Melbourne's best galleries

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The best free art galleries in Melbourne

Because getting up close to world-class art shouldn't cut a healthy slice out of your salary

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Where to find the best street art in Melbourne

The street art hotspots that any self-respecting 'grammer should be snapping

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Time Out's guide to Aboriginal art

Many visitors want to take away a piece of Indigenous art as a souvenir, but it’s not quite that simple

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Bluffer's guide to contemporary art

From Duchamp and Warhol, contemporary art can take a fair bit of untangling

Art exhibitions this week in Melbourne

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Desert Lines: Batik from Central Australia

This free exhibition in Bendigo looks at a pivotal chapter in Australian art

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Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act

The London-based artist and DJ is making a scene for Melbourne Festival

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A Mile in My Shoes

Connect with a stranger in this uniquely moving free experience

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Mariana Castillo Deball: Replaying Life’s Tape

This Melbourne Festival exhibition steps back in time some 635 million years

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What's on at

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NGV International

Victoria's premier art gallery features major blockbuster exhibitions. The permanent collection includes a Rembrandt, a Bonnard and a Tiepolo

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The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

See NGV's extensive collection of Australian artwork, ranging from the Colonial period through to contemporary art

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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)

A not-for-profit gallery showcasing group exhibitions of sculpture, video, installation, photography, print and paint

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Heide Museum of Modern Art

This bastion of Australian modernism and contemporary art also boasts an outdoor sculpture park and the 1960s home of founders John and Sunday Reed.

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Arts Centre Melbourne

Featuring temporary and permanent exhibitions from the Arts Centre's performing arts and public art collections

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Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

The place to go for major exhibitions and screenings relating to film, television and gaming culture

Art news and announcements

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An enormous immersive digital art gallery is opening in Melbourne

Who among us hasn't looked at a Vincent van Gogh painting and dreamed of walking into a world of his swirling, colourful brushstrokes? Well now you won't...

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The NGV has just announced its next blockbuster exhibition

The National Gallery of Victoria's annual winter masterpieces series has been packed with some pretty massive names from the art world in recent years. The...

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A giant penguin mural has popped up in Hosier Lane

You might not expect to find a penguin swanning about in the Melbourne CBD (they’re usually too busy fishing in St Kilda) but that’s just changed. Next time...

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Who is KAWS, the record-smashing artist whose characters have taken over the NGV?

Earlier this year, a painting by New York artist and designer KAWS (aka Brian Donnelly) sold at Sotheby’s for an eye-watering 115.9 million Hong Kong...