Australia
World-breaking result as Brits focus on Aussie art
Australia was under the hammer in more ways than one this week, as Christies London set a new world record…
Big week for visual arts winners
Awards for furniture designers, landscape painters and region-specific prizes for artists were all announced this week.
Border-jockey artists claim Brisbane home with first Australian survey
Brisbane-based Filipino collaborative, the Aquilizans’, re-chart notions of home and migration, connecting communities globally.
Reimagined landscapes
The 2013 winner of the Paddington Art Prize has been announced.
Contracted shooters hit Carriageworks
Masters of verbatim theatre, version 1.0 turn a spotlight on the privatisation of war zones.
A rat among the ranks at MONA
2012 recipient of the MONA Scholarship, Pip Stafford, is turning MONA’s library into A Rat’s Nest.
User utopia experiments with architecture
With the power of a wrecking ball, the Visual Arts puts its stamp on this year’s Sydney Architecture Festival.
The Graduate
The sex was good and the lines are still funny but we were not seduced by this Mrs Robinson.
Digital invades the classics
From a virtual orchestra to a MIDI-controlled grand organ, technology is updating the classical arena in futuristic ways.
Wangaratta Jazz Festival plays on despite Council crisis
The Wangaratta Jazz Festival has received guaranteed funding, circumventing dependence on a sacked Council.