Australia

Finalists announced for Australia’s first digital billboard art competition
The inaugural Fivex Art Prize offers up a total prize pool of $35,000, with the artists’ work displayed across two…

New international collaboration launches Novel Prize
Giramondo Publishing will collaborate with Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions on The Novel Prize, worth US$10,000.

Review: Selby and Friends – A Tale of Two Cities, Elder Hall (SA)
Selby & Friends takes the audience to Vienna and St Petersburg in a superb season opener.

Review: Romeo Castellucci’s Requiem, Adelaide Festival (SA)
Rich in symbolism, doom and hope, you live through the cycle of life and death at the hands of Romeo…

Book review: Sky Swimming by Sylvia Martin
Biographer Sylvia Martin finally turns her pen on herself.

How focusing on the sector’s vitamin deficiencies makes work stronger
Perhaps best known as a touring body, Performing Lines has a key role to play in strengthening the sector by…

Bushfire affected organisations encouraged to apply to future-proofing program
A new professional development program designed to help small to medium arts organisations transform their business models has been launched…

Book review: Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy has captured the mores of the postwar period to perfection.

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Janine Hosking receives prestigious documentary award, Port Fairy Folk Festival honours its founder, 2020 Kat Muscat Fellow announced and more.

Why arts organisations should pay their interns, even if they can't afford to
Within an arts organisation you are only as valuable as you are flexible and obedient.