Australia

An Audience with Billie Holiday
This is a great production (produced by Arts Events Australia) made up of great elements that don’t quite add up.

The Mikado
Director Mark Barford had excellent material in his cast, all of whom excelled in their roles.

Our heads up for Head On
Australia’s largest photography festival kicks off this week in Sydney and it’s looking better than ever.

Ugly Mugs: sex and violence on and off stage
A background on the St Kilda streets, has given a social worker, actress and playwright the content for a disturbingly…

Graduating artist hatches $35,000 prize
The level of her ambition was what won this graduating artist the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize.

Preview tour of Artbank’s new home
When Artbank lost its Rosebery home of 30 years to developers, it presented a silver lining in an unlikely find.

Activitating cities with art
Architects, artists and cultural planners at SAMAG mooted ways to better integrate art into urban planning.

Augmented Sculptures are a reality
Smart Phone Apps give sculptures life, linking artists from the US, China Germany and beyond with Port Macquarie locals.

Arts restructure mania
There is no evidence the bigger is better in arts management so why the pressure to collapse functioning arts organisations?

Australia loses a great administrator to Toronto
Biennale of Sydney confirms Chief Executive Officer is moving on.