Art+Auction - March 2016_

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CULTURE+TRAVEL
Forty-three years later,
the Biennale of Sydney
(biennaleofsydney.com
.au) celebrates its 20th
edition this month. The
biennale is distributed
across seven individually
themed venues that
its literature calls
“embassies of thought,”
as well as a number
of “in-between spaces.”
Running March 18
through June 5, in
collaboration with the
Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Artspace,
and the Museum of
Contemporary Art
Australia, the event
offers an excuse to lose
yourself in a city that is
home to the world’s
largest natural harbor.
SEE
QEstablished in 1816,
the Royal Botanic
Garden is the oldest
scientiic institution
in Australia, covering 74
acres of green space
around Sydney Harbour
and into the city, and
hosting both natural
wonders and cultural
events. From April 9
through May 1, the
Lion Gate Lodge holds
the “Botanica” art
exhibition, including work
by the country’s leading
botanic and natural-
science artists.
MRS MACQUARIES ROAD
+61 2 9231 8111
rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
QBoasting one of the
largest contemporary
Chinese art collections in
the world, with 1,400
works by more than 500
artists, White Rabbit
Gallery is housed within
a former Rolls-Royce
showroom in Chippen-
dale. Judith Neilson
founded the gallery
in 2009 and mounts two
exhibitions a year. The
gallery also includes
a teahouse that serves
ine Taiwanese and
Chinese teas, and
handmade dumplings.
30 BALFOUR STREET,
CHIPPENDALE
+61 2 8399 2867
whiterabbitcollection.org
QThe State Library of
New South Wales,
the irst library on the
continent, opened
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SYDNEY
Australia’s most famous city may not be its capital, but it is certainly the nation’s center for the arts. Its most iconic structure—architect
Jørn Oberg Utzon’s white-shelled Sydney Opera House—is a multipurpose arts venue, and its opening in 1973 marked the
inaugural Biennale of Sydney, the first biennial established in the Asia-Pacific region. BY ROBERT MICHAEL POOLE AND NICHOLAS FORREST
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