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Canterbury Rd in Box Hill South, looking east toward the Station St intersection.

My suburb is quiet, green and close to dumplings - it beats its better-known cousin hands down

There’s much to be said for living near a bustling neighbourhood rather than in it.

  • Avery Poole

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Still from Russell Crowe’s upcoming film Poker Face.

Is the priceless artwork in Russell Crowe’s new film real – and is it his?

There are some spectacular paintings on display in Russell Crowe’s Poker Face, and the writer-director-star claims most of them are real. But how many are his?

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Chris Deutscher of Deutscher and Hackett with, left, Tom Roberts’ painting A Modern Andromeda, (1892) and, right, Arthur Streeton’s The Centre of the Empire, 1902.

Young art collectors eye traditional works by Streeton and Roberts

After many years out of circulation, masterpieces by revered Impressionists Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts are set to go under the hammer on Wednesday.

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Herbert Badham’s 1941 The Swimming Enclosure.

In the deep end: The swimming pool in Australian art

Every artist who has tried to depict a swimming pool – and in Australia there must be hundreds – will testify to the difficulties.

  • John McDonald