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This November, a new two-show ticket pairs innovative performances at Arts House.

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2022 Wyndham Art Prize Winner: Lilah Benetti, 'More Like a River (Portrait),’ photograph. Image: courtesy of the artist.
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Art without rules: why now is the time to enter the Wyndham Art Prize

Past winner Lilah Benetti says the Wyndham Art Prize makes room for artistic risk.

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Sidney Nolan, Ned Kelly, 1946. Ripolin enamel on hardboard. Collection of National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Courtesy: Sidney Nolan Trust / DACS / Copyright Agency.
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Sidney Nolan looms large over this exhibition of his early work, but his voice can’t always be trusted

As the AGNSW stages a major exhibition of Sidney Nolan's first paintings, the art historian Chris McAuliffe considers what the…

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First NSW arts report card: strong growth but the state’s artists are worried

It’s mixed results in the NSW Government’s inaugural arts health check. The contribution of the arts to the state’s economy…

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ROHTKO will premiere in Australia at Perth Festival 2027. Photo: Supplied (ROHTKO at Dailes Theatre, Latvia).
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The future of theatre? High-tech European blockbuster ROHTKO heads to Perth Festival

Perth Festival 2027 is embracing the next wave of international theatre – and it's unlike anything you've seen.

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Journey of a Smoking Ceremony

This striking new large-scale public art installation by Aboriginal photographer James Henry transforms Docklands’ Harbour into an open-air art gallery.

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2026 Invitation Art Prize

From robotic vacuums and kinetic sculpture to the Kimberley night sky, this year’s Invitation Art Prize brings together ten newly…

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Beautiful Tensions: Gray Street Workshop Celebrates Forty Years

Celebrate 40 years of Gray Street Workshop in this major touring exhibition featuring new contemporary jewellery and object-making by four…

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Whitehorse Art Prize

A new acquisitive award for Victorian artists, celebrating excellence in contemporary visual art across the fields of painting, works on…

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Enter the 2027 Muswellbrook Art Prize, one of regional Australia's richest art prizes, awarding $70,000 across painting, works on paper…

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Tyallah Bullock and Roxanne McDonald in Before I Forget. Photo: Pia Johnson.
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MTC's powerful dementia drama Before I Forget finds the joy and strength in family

Playwright and director Kamarra Bell-Wykes draws on her own family history for this affecting MTC drama at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Stephen A Russell

Nov 4, 2026
Installation view, Passage: The Art of Atong Atem, featuring from left, Atong Atem’s As Above and A facet for every turn, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross.
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Atong Atem’s Passage is a powerful act of cultural reclamation

Atong Atem's major survey exhibition at NGV Australia navigates the power to author one’s own image.

Gina Fairley

Nov 3, 2026
Installation view, The House of Floating Flowers (Ukibana no ie), PUNQ 2026, Japanese House, Ingham. Photo: Luke McLeod. Courtesy: Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.
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House of Floating Flowers brings the outside into a remarkable Queensland home

Presented as part of PUNQ, Mari Hirata's site-specific installation takes over the Japanese House in Ingham in northern Queensland.

Madeleine Swain

Oct 29, 2026
Installation view, Rosalie Gascoigne, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2026, featuring Rosalie Gascoigne, Plenty, 1986. Courtesy: Rosalie Gascoigne / Copyright Agency.
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Rosalie Gascoigne’s ageless experimentation shines in sublime retrospective

Three decades since her last retrospective, the National Gallery of Australia gathers the many pieces of Rosalie Gascoigne's career and…

Gina Fairley

Oct 28, 2026
Zane Saunders, Preface, 2026. Performance installation, PUNQ 2026, Old NSW Bank Building, Gurambilbarra/Townsville. Photo: Tszar. Courtesy: the artist.
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Preface takes visual art to the floor at PUNQ in Townsville

Jarrowia, Butchulla and Gunggari artist Zane Saunders is a man of few words, so when he does open his mouth…

Madeleine Swain

Oct 20, 2026

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Opportunities for 2 to 8 November 2026 include major festivals, art prizes and professional development programs.

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Opportunities for 26 October to 1 November 2026 include prizes, grants and residencies.

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The film is finished. Now what?

The producer of the Australian film What About Sal? shares hard truths about getting your film out into the world…

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World Dance Crew Championships. Photo: Supplied.
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Melbourne's Magnify Writers in Residence program at Kingston Arts. Photo: Supplied.
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