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Uneasy calm in Taiwan as island surrounded

As China shows its muscle to Taiwan with live-fire exercises around the island, Adrian Moore in Taipei talks to locals and reports on life on the ground. Life is normal here, there are no air raid sirens, no noises, just city living. People are brave on the surface but it is hard to discern whether […]

Review: ‘The Lovers’

René Magritte’s Les Amants (The Lovers) (1928) is a wonderful allegory of the ‘Love is blind’ adage. It is one of four artworks similarly composed, with different poses and backdrops. Each has the same image of two veiled lovers. Magritte has a flair for creating surrealist pieces with deeply evocative tones and simple themes. The La Trobe regional gallery in Morwell, Victoria, was fortunate enough […]

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