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Two big - and quite different - visual art festivals in Melbourne and Sydney, and a controversy in England over censorship and a Victorian-era painting. Courtney Johnston is the director of The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt.

Ron Mueck, Mass, 2017. National Gallery of Victoria Triennial.

Ron Mueck, Mass, 2017. National Gallery of Victoria Triennial.

Samson Young, Muted Situations #22: Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, 2017. Biennale of Sydney.

Samson Young, Muted Situations #22: Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, 2017. Biennale of Sydney.

John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896. Collection of the Manchester Art Gallery.

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