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Australian Arts

Nothing like a Dame

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

Art takes every possible shape and size. The exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e prints (running at the National Gallery of Australia until July 6) is a reminder of the intimate connection between the Japanese art of the etching – first in stylised lines of black but then with extraordinary overlays of colour – to an elaborate piece of modern erotica, the Teraoka image, in which a phallic red octopus from the deep ministers to an erotically blissed out pearl fisher-woman.

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