Arts News

Handspring Puppet Company’s magical, life-size puppets return to dazzle Australian audiences – but the show veers into sentimentality.

The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced that fiction writer Neil Gaiman will make a one-night only appearance in February.

Brisbane’s superstar circus returns home with a reminder of what human bodies can do when we keep showing up and pushing our limit

New York-based duo The Acrobuffos’ show is breathtakingly beautiful, offering delight for young and old.

Our handy guide to fiction film festivals around the world which might tempt you off the beaten track.

As bushfires become the new abnormal, Stephanie Eslake looks how musicians, comedians and other performing artists are re-thinking their tours, organising benefits and changing how they create.

Black Swan appoints new Executive Director, meet Australian Festival of Chamber Music's new AD, new program manager for Melbourne Writers Festival, and more.

Is it still possible to make breakthrough television in Australia? The 2020 new Australian shows on mainstream media can be classy, but we are short on visceral daring.

Eight artists join eight engineers in a collaboration that examines 60 years of the Manly Dam, garnering lessons in coastal erosion, wetland management, biodiversity, climate change and social history.

A captivating story about a little-known piece of Australian history.

From lost trades to contemporary Indigenous fashion, Bendigo’s museums and festivals showcase the best of past and present.

Opera Australia’s dynamic revival production is likely to please both opera fans and the uninitiated.

Writers and illustrators have rallied behind the #AuthorsForFireys campaign – meanwhile, the bushfire crisis has also fuelled attacks on arts funding.

Keith Haring was a gay man and AIDS activist whose art reflected his life and passion. So why has this aspect of his work seemingly been deliberately excised from a current NGV exhibition?

Women. Solos. First Nations. Cook. These are the four overwhelming trends across visual arts programming for 2020.

SPARK NT announces new curator, Ensemble Offspring turns 25, Aussie songwriters honoured by APRA/AMCOS, plus more awards news.

From major new ballets to fringe festival delights, here are some of the anticipated dance and circus highlights of the year.

Cinemas are vital parts of community life in regional areas with their own responses to the fires.

Hobart Fringe presents an endearing and imaginative family-friendly physical comedy.

Margot Robbie is the only Australian hope in the Oscars, in yet another year where issues of diversity seem ignored by the Academy.