Australia

Review: Benjamin Grosvenor in Recital
Fresh verve matched with exceptional virtuosity.

Review: TheatreiNQ's The Comedy of Errors
Townsville’s theatre company scores a hit with a western themed outdoor Shakespearean offering.

The art of displacement: how OzAsia Festival celebrates contemporary practice
From contemporary dance to Chinese comedy, this year’s OzAsia Festival explores themes including post-colonialism and global inspiration across 18 days…

Metamorphosis: How a visual artist became an opera designer
Artist-come-designer Mark Thompson has created the sets and costumes for Opera Australia’s new production ‘Metamorphosis’, based on Kafka’s iconic novel

Review: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2018
Small in scale but large in imagination, these 40 forms provide an overview of the best of contemporary sculptural practice…

Review: Next Lesson, Queer Fringe @ The New
This well acted and directed production puts forged rights on stage in an emotional and warm reminder that the parallel…

Review: Injury Time by Clive James, Picador
These beautiful poems are proof that Clive James has made good use of the extra time he has been allotted.

Applause: latest funding and awards announced
HOTA announces photography awards finalists, recipients of Freedman Foundation Scholarship winners announced and finalists announced in $60,000 Melbourne Prize for…

How art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women artists
The advent of second wave feminism resulted in a long-overdue re-appreciation of the works of Vida Lahey, Margaret Preston, Grace…

Why the arts sector needs to let Australia’s First Peoples lead
In his keynote speech at the recent PAC Australia conference, Dr Richard Walley OAM urged arts leaders to step back…