Who Stole the Southern Cross? A Cautionary Tale for Public Art

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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Claire Milledge
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
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Curator and cultural visionary Kevin Murray asks what happened to Southern Cross Station, once Spencer Street Station now lost under a morass of advertising. Where is the public art?

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