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MELBOURNE -- Australia's best-known furniture designer is London-based, Sydney-born Marc Newson, whose modern experimental shapes, clever aesthetics and sleek finishes have made him an international celebrity with luxury retailers such as Swarovski and Louis Vuitton among his clients.
MELBOURNE -- Angus McDonald is a Sydney-based artist and filmmaker who has been painting professionally for over 30 years. This year, his portrait of Marcia Langton AO (Order of Australia), an Aboriginal writer and academic, marked the seventh time he featured as a finalist in Australia's most prestigious portrait competition, the Archibald Prize. But this year, McDonald was also the subject of another Archibald contender -- a portrait by his friend, the Kurdish Iranian artist Mostafa Azimitabar.
MELBOURNE -- Australia's relative youth as a country, which dates only to the federation of its states and territories in 1901, might help explain its affinity with contemporary dance. Many choreographers, directors and performers seem to lean naturally toward dance forms that reflect a young and ethnically diverse nation confronting a legacy of colonization and the influence of digital media.
MELBOURNE -- From trance to techno, ambient to house and glitch to drum and bass, the Australian electronic dance music scene is thriving, with artists such as Logic1000, Haiku Hands, Golden Features and Dom Dolla attracting international attention.
MELBOURNE -- The Melbourne Writers Festival, which will be held this year from May 8 to May 12, is one of Australia's most anticipated literary events. Over nearly 40 years since it was founded in 1986, the festival has gained a reputation for showcasing local and international authors in panel discussions, workshops and readings.
MELBOURNE -- In the 21st century, the songs of an increasing number of First Nations Australians walk between two worlds: the streaming world of Spotify, SoundCloud and Apple Music, and ancestral languages that, in some cases, can be traced back 12,000 years.
MELBOURNE -- The third edition of the PHOTO International Festival of Photography, Australia's largest photography festival, has an ambitious theme: "The future is shaped by those who can see it." For Elias Redstone, the festival's founder and director, that means enabling access to both Australian and international art across the state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital.