Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art has admitted to displaying three fake Picasso paintings for more than three years. In a blog post published on Wednesday, curator Kirsha Kaechele said she forged the fakes herself to match the colour scheme of the museum's Ladies Lounge. Kaechele said the fakes came about when she was designing the Ladies Lounge several …
In its second full edition this year, Naarm/Melbourne's Rising is still very much a new festival — the newest major city-based arts festival in Australia, and in a city that already has a rich annual calendar of festivals, exhibitions and performance programs. Rising this year used Melbourne Town Hall to present the video installation Euphoria ; Fitzroy Gardens as the …