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Life-size robots interacted with guests at the launch of Australasia’s first cross-disciplinary robotics laboratory at the College of Fine Arts. VIDEO

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Iconic images of Gough Whitlam’s 1973 visit to China and his groundbreaking links with Indigenous Australia form the basis of COFA's Making Change exhibition. 

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Dominated by women and colour, the Art Gallery of NSW's latest exhibition displays the kind of art once regarded by the establishment as too decorative, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.

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The challenge for art and design schools is to prepare students for a world that does not yet exist and for jobs that have not yet been created, writes Ross Harley.

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Is the Vivid festival just about light and colour and bling, or is it also about ideas and images that challenge us, asks Phillip George.

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The International Symposium on Electronic Art, co-chaired by new COFA Dean Professor Ross Harley, shows that digital art is a pervasive force.

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VIVID Sydney comes to UNSW this weekend as a festival of performance and ideas focusing on artistic collaboration.

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There exist several barriers that prevent women from taking senior leadership posts in arts organisations, and the most significant is child-rearing, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.

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Dream, believe, create, succeed – rap artist, documentary maker and COFA alumnus Macario De Souza’s advice to UNSW’s latest group of ASPIRE students.

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COFA graduate Del Kathryn Barton has won the Archibald for her portrait of actor Hugo Weaving, the second time she has won the prestigious prize.

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