National

Who is getting the grants? AusCo reports
What are your chances of getting an Australia Council grant? We crunch the numbers from the AusCo annual report.

Queensland Ballet Artistic Director named as the state’s Australian of the Year 2014
Announcement follows Director’s debut season with the company

Black Swan State Theatre Company announces new General Manager
Perth’s State Theatre also welcomes new member to Board of Directors

Maggie Stone
The State Theatre Company of SA production of Caleb Lewis’ new play, is a bleak, melodramatic look at the African…

The Grandmaster
An historical martial arts epic that is both frenetic and contemplative.

Academy of Ancient Music & Sara Macliver
The Academy of Ancient Music is at the forefront of the movement to perform baroque music in an authentic style.

God’s Dog
Italian author Diego Marani’s latest novel imagines a bizarre and intriguing world of thrillers and theocrats.

Arts glaring absent from Tourism Awards
Only one arts organisation got a guernsey among the 33 winners in the Victorian Tourism Awards.

The world’s most expensive painting: Bacon sells for $152 million
More than friends, Francis Bacon’s triptych of Lucian Freud set world record last night at Christie’s New York sale.

Gertrude Contemporary appoints new Director
Melbourne institution Gertrude Contemporary sets for a new future.