Australia

Sector avoids Christmas cuts
The arts and screen sectors survive the last potential attacks for the year, but there is more to come.

Made to Last/Handmade, Moonah Arts Centre (TAS)
The dancers of Mature Artists Dance Experience show that growing older doesn’t have to be graceful with an impertinent, cliché-busting…

Creative School Holiday Guide for Summer
Holidays are the ideal time for kids and teens to get creative. Here's a selection of short courses and workshops…

Vale: To those we lost in 2019
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2019.

Going Down Swinging Vol. 40
Local literary institution Going Down Swinging’s bumper 40th edition is a timely reminder of the power of art.

$7.2m in grants under NSW funding round rehash
Under the new Create NSW Grants Framework, organisations received 66% of funding for annual operations, with a noted increase also…

Did we not see #invisiblearts coming?
In the wake of the arts department's disappearance at a federal level, Candy Bowers asks if this is the beginning…

Back from the brink: Ausdance National saved from closure
Despite heralding its own demise in August, advocacy body Ausdance National has been saved by its own members.

Mozart & Salieri, The Butterfly Club (VIC)
Double bill featuring Pushkin’s play and Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera shows that the more musical version builds on its inspiration.

Keith Haring & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, National Gallery of Victoria (VIC)
The NGV’s exclusive exhibition provides a comprehensive and diverse survey of the artists’ work with insight into their lives.