Australia

Multi-million dollar boost for contemporary music
WA’s McGowan Labor Government has announced a $3 million fund to support the state’s bands and musicians as part of…

'Grow your culture – make it big enough to support all of you'
Curators, arts administrators and artists share their strategies for improving diversity in the art world.

Jamie Preisz awarded Archibald Packing Room Prize for portrait of Jimmy Barnes
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced the winner of the 2018 Packing Room Prize.

Review: 2018 Varuna Sydney Writers’ Festival
Diverse, fresh, and vivid voices animate this extraordinary writers’ festival.

10,000 native plants to feature at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
A multi-sensory living installation displaying endangered Indigenous Australian grassland species will interrogate architecture’s responsibility to environmental rehabilitation.

Review: Stomp playing at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre
A new, vibrant cast touring Australia for the next month.

Review: Souvenir by the Camerata
Camerata's Souvenir is a fine sample of world class, home-grown talent.

The necessary discomfort in the labour of making art
Three artists discuss the physical and emotional labours of their work.

Creating art from autobiography
Using personal storytelling to inform performance art can have a profound effect on both the audience and artists who are…

Review: Australian World Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti Sydney
Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the exceptional Australian World Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House for the opening of their…