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Moment Factory's larger-than-life video games experience Augmented Games has been programmed for Illuminate Adelaide 2026. People watch on from the sides as participants step onto the boards of immersive, large-scale video games.
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Illuminate Adelaide reveals its 2026 program

This year's Illuminate Adelaide festival features a larger-than-life video game, a radiant woolly mammoth and even a smartphone choir.

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Analysis

Wabi-sabi or sloppy? How to tell authentic from slapdash

In an age of artificial perfection, wabi-sabi is a refuge that offers lessons for embracing the human in art and…

John Brack x Noel McKenna exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery: a woman dressed in black is sitting on a gallery bench looking at a range of small paintings hung on the gallery walls . One wall is a deep purple colour, the other is white.
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John Brack x Noel McKenna review: National Portrait Gallery’s masterful pairing of two great Australian painters

The shared interests of two Australian artists prove a fitting portal through which to explore their unique artistic voices.

Susan Provan will step down as Festival Director and CEO of Melbourne International Comedy Festival later this year. An older woman with fair skin, shoulder length brown hair and dark-framed glasses smiles at the camera. arts sector appointments
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week's Australian arts sector appointments include the departure of Susan Provan AO from Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and new…

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Career Advice

Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives this week

Opportunities for 27 April to 2 May 2026 include coveted residencies, writing prizes and grants to support professional development.

Dr Ashley Hay, Meanjin's new Establishing Editor. Image: supplied.
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Meanjin: QUT appoints 'establishing editor' for literary journal

Dr Ashley Hay has been appointed as Establishing Editor of Meanjin, as the journal begins a new chapter.

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Features

Vale David Malouf, a writer of wisdom, grace and generosity

David Malouf will be a remembered as a writer of wisdom, grace and generosity, and for the richness of his…

Rosemarie Milson, the new Director of Adelaide Writers' Week. Image: Edwina Richards.
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Adelaide Writers’ Week: Rosemarie Milsom announced as new director

Milsom's appointment follows a boycott, multiple resignations and the cancellation of the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week.

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Analysis

Dennis Altman: UQP has cancelled a children’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, citing antisemitism

'As a writer, I do not believe we counter racism, antisemitism, homophobia or transphobia by boycotts and cancellations.'

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Opinions & Analysis

Solidarity with Jazz Money, Evelyn Araluen: 'We have an obligation to stand against genocide'

Writer Claire G Coleman watches in horror as UQP pulps a children's book by a First Nations writer.

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