Australia

How to make the most of your artist residency
Visual artist Rehgan De Mather shares his journey as an artist in residence at Melbourne's fortyfivedownstairs.

John Barrowman set for Australian stage debut
From Broadway and the West End to small screen SF and superhero programs, Barrowman is a versatile and respected entertainer.

The trigger to rethinking Australia’s Venice Biennale management
Directives from the Venice Biennale have had a ricochet effect that’s rocked arts philanthropy to its core back in Australia.

Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect medium
Are Mapplethorpe's photographs as confronting as they were in the 1980s? Drawn from his archive, a new exhibition at the…

Madama Butterfly
A fond farewell to this stylish Opera Australia production after more than 150 performances.

2017 Melbourne Festival Diary
Snapshot reviews of this year's festival, updated regularly, including Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the sublime…

Applause: recent winners
Create NSW & Artbank Fellowship announced, art bursary recipient revealed, and Screenability fund distributed.

Regional Indigenous youth program takes centre stage
Regional skills development projects like Transmit at Bundanon Trust shape career pathways in the arts.

An Inconvenient Woman
Susan Neill-Fraser’s case, dramatised here by Brian Peddie, is arguably Tasmania’s most famous legal story.

The ultimate celebration of truth
In a world of fake news, Australia's leading celebration of non-fiction, Word for Word Festival, shows us why free thinkers…