Australia
How festivals are coming out of COVID
After 2020’s postponements, festivals are back with a renewed focus on the local, exciting audiences across the nation.
The funding that builds career resilience
COVID-19 venue closures in the performing arts could have left some artists out in the cold. But award-winning Canberran playwright…
Discover the photographer behind Australia’s most iconic moments
NFSA celebrates the 60-year career of the prolific Indigenous photojournalist Mervyn Bishop with an exhibition in Canberra only until August.
Theatre Review: A Room of One’s Own, Belvoir
Belvoir’s production of Virginia Woolf’s classic polemic on women in literature is a sophisticated and stimulating exploration of the role…
Exhibition Review: Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise, Hota Gallery
An impressive collection hang speaks to a legacy of patronage, while the inaugural exhibition Solid Gold celebrates local artists -…
Dance Review: Jurrungu Ngan-ga, Marrugeku
A potent, superbly executed work that pulsates with sadness and rage, resilience and joy.
The 2021 budget must think big and reinvest in the social capital of ideas
The cash splash of the COVID-19 recovery budget should be used to place arts and creativity at the centre of…
Victoria to get $288 million to support arts sector following challenging 2020
Victoria’s creative industries will see some relief in the form of a $288 million investment from the State Government in…
Vale Ku Ku Imidiji man Arone Meeks, Chair of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Boomalli co-founder, teacher, Indigenous health care activist, and internationally collected Queensland artist, Arone Meeks has died aged 64. He leaves…
Exploring pathways to new territory
Across the Northern Territory, Artback NT is connecting audiences to artists, and artists to the rest of Australia.