Australia

Creative things to do this NAIDOC Week
With the theme Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! we help you with a list of how to get involved…

Some practical steps to truth-telling in museums
Calls for First Nations truth-telling are growing louder in Australian politics. What does that look like within the museum sector?

Japanese avant-garde ceramicists test the limits of clay
Documenting a shift from function to form, Catherine Speck looks at AGSA’s latest exhibition on Japanese ceramics.

SXSW: South by Southwest comes to Sydney
SXSW Sydney will expand the world-famous music, film and art festival into the Asia Pacific region for the first time.

Library showcases how craft advances science
Combining contemporary commissions with a historic collection, State Library Victoria rethinks the intersections between craft and science.

Exhibition review: Jeff Gibson, Countertypes
Copy, Cut and Compilate: an artist who plays with mass media imagery.

Book review: Enclave, Claire G. Coleman
A dystopian future that bears too scary a resemblance to certain contemporary realities.

Vale painter Ms D Yunupiŋu, mother of the Rirratjiŋu nation
The Yirrkala community lost a bold and individual talent with the passing of Ms D. Yunupiŋu.

Exhibition review: Bruce Munro: From Sunrise Road, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Shimmering installations, Morse code and colour as symbols of place and time, Munro’s first Australian museum show brings together the…

Theatre review: Talking to the Future
A peek at our nation’s political past confirms that the more things change, the more they stay the same.