Gina Fairley
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Who’d leave a television career to join a library?
They used to be quiet spaces; now they are the quiet achievers. We can all learn from libraries' successes in…
Incubating ideas needs more than a hip share office
Tired of big budget, big tech talk when it comes to innovation? Then start with old fashioned talking: it's proving…
New podcast challenges cultural whitewashing
The Culture Cycle is a new series that asks whether Australia’s arts and cultural sector looks like Australia.
Spray gun philosophy: Katharina Grosse on painting
A new installation at Carriageworks is the next chapter in Grosse’s somewhat unorthodox journey with painting. What drives her and…
The Merry Widow
With Hollywood-style production numbers, glamorous Deco sets and divas worthy of the title, The Merry Widow is a winner.
Vale: Alun Leach-Jones
Once you start to realise you can become a painter, the only way you can become really major, is to…
What does 2018 hold for the visual arts?
You can tell a lot about a year by the topics that garner attention. We surveyed the exhibitions scheduled for…
Hyper Real
This exhibition both surprised and excited, and I was delighted to be thrown off guard and proven wrong.
The Big List: the visual arts in 2017
2017 was big: big empathy, big blockbusters, big harassment, big lobbying and big shifts in the visual arts ecology as…
On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
Junction Arts reshuffle; Melbourne Fringe Festival producer announced; New Chair for Wheeler Centre; Musica Viva CEO honoured and new Ten…