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ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
Victoria lands Netflix’s Clickbait, Indigenous Jewellery Project holds survey exhibition, AGWA celebrates 40 years of brutalism, 2020 programs announced and…

Review: Hair, His Majesty’s Theatre (WA/national)
This revival of the classic 1960s musical absolutely lets the sunshine in.

Finding new audiences starts with centring the margins
Revolutionary change was the theme of Bryan Joseph Lee’s keynote at Performing Arts Connections Australia’s conference this week.

Arts criticism of disabled artists needs to get smarter
Artists with disability believe it is their right to be reviewed in the same way as abled artists; that the…

Kate Mulvany scoops the AWGIES
The Sydney Theatre Company’s The Harp in the South sweeps up the big prizes in the Australian Writers Guild awards.

A festival that says there's more to love
This year's Melbourne Writers Festival is all loved up so we picked nine events that reveal the heart's diversity with…

Theatre that fights our inertia on the climate crisis
In their new immersive eco-horror, Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen of Deep Soulful Sweats craft a dark, hopeful and irreverent…

First woman chair for West Australian Ballet
Woodside executive Sherry Duhe takes over to lead WA Ballet’s Board.

Collecting heartbreak: A museum for break ups
A travelling exhibition that tells the stories accompanying objects leftover from broken relationships is making its way to the Melbourne…

Regional art, twice removed
Shivanjani Lal’s exhibition at Bega Valley Regional Gallery explores loss and dislocation.