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“The Lego prototype went through many, many phases of moving buttons around... It was playful and not permanent”: Ableton’s Jesse Terry reveals the Lego brick origins of the company's Push hardware instrument as he revisits a rare early prototype

"I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted,” he says

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Powerhouse Museum acquires David Jones’ archive, brimming with forgotten stories of Australia’s past

David Jones is donating its archive to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, it has been announced today. It is a timely reminder of the significance of “DJs”, Australia’s oldest department store, to the development of modern Australia.

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Fashion icon Dame Zandra donates renowned collection

Dame Zandra Rhodes, known as "the Princess of Punk" because of her bold style, has donated one of her most notable collections to a Sydney museum.

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Powerhouse Museum: whistleblower staff claim more exhibition items damaged or put at risk

Current workers blame policy of ‘open display’ for compromising safety of collection, in new allegations the museum rejects as ‘lies’

The Guardian - AU

Revealed: the ‘buried’ Powerhouse Museum report that could have stopped $500m redevelopment

A prominent heritage architect alleges the NSW government terminated his contract and hired another company after he advised that the Ultimo site should be heritage listed

The Guardian - AU

How the NSW government can still benefit from developer money despite political donations ban

Property developers are banned from making political donations in NSW but can legally become major patrons of important government projects

The Guardian - AU

Carla Zampatti retrospective at the Powerhouse Museum reveres the late fashion designer as a champion for working women

In the first major retrospective of the late Italian-Australian designer, the Powerhouse is taking a look back at the designs that defined an era of women’s fashion.

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Clothes women wanted to wear: a new exhibition explores how Carla Zampatti saw her designs as a tracker of feminism

The late Carla Zampatti is celebrated in a splendid retrospective Zampatti Powerhouse at the Powerhouse Museum. Planned well before the fashion designer’s untimely death last year, the unveiling of her legacy will be bittersweet to her many fans.

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‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

The Guardian - AU

Powerhouse Parramatta: entertainment centre ‘masquerading’ as a museum has high flood risk, inquiry finds

NSW parliamentary committee releases scathing appraisal of decision to build $1.34bn project on site with ‘very real flood risks’

The Guardian - AU

Eddie Mabo changed Australia. Thirty years on, what's his legacy?

As Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo sketched out his plans to shake the foundations of Australian law, he told his teenage daughter his prophecy: "One day, all of Australia will know my name." He was right.

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Three things with Paul Bui: ‘I lost it promptly that night at a rave, flinging my body around’

In our weekly interview about objects, the creative director tells us about his useful five-euro find, and the graphic novel he’d save from a burning house

The Guardian - AU

The electric car that turned heads around Canberra

In the 1940s, Canberra bureaucrat Roland Wilson built an EV in his backyard and regularly drove it from his home in suburban Forrest to his job in the Parliamentary Triangle

The Canberra Times

Dress for excess: designers embrace post-lockdown hedonism

At this year’s Australian fashion week, three queer designers represent a move towards rave wear and ‘main character’ energy

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‘Significant in the lives of so many women’: Carla Zampatti retrospective crowdsources a legacy

For the first major exhibition since the fashion designer’s death, the Powerhouse Museum is asking the public to contribute early works

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