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Red Stitch's Carbon. Photo: Sarah Walker.
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Mind-expanding and paradigm-shifting, Carbon is a play for our times

Now playing at Red Stitch in Melbourne, Carbon won't be for everyone, but it will undoubtedly change your perspective on…

Kellie O’Dempsey, Caretaker, 2026. Installation view, PUNQ 2026, Townsville. Photo: Luke McLeod.
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North Queensland's PUNQ festival shows the startling reach of place-based arts projects

This year's PUNQ festival presented a wide range of site-specific exhibitions and installations, including Kellie O'Dempsey's moving look at the…

Installation view, The Mall, Powerhouse Parramatta, 2026. Photo: OMA / Cieran Murphy.
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Poorly lit and scattered, Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibitions fail to impress

New museums will inevitably have teething issues, but despite bright spots like The Mall exhibition, the opening of the hotly…

Benjamin Rasheed as Papignol and Opera Australia Children's Chorus in Opera Australia's La Bohème, 2026. Photo: Peter Foster.
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Opera Australia's La Bohème is a lavish triumph

Directed by the polymath Constantine Costi, Opera Australia’s latest rendition of Puccini’s masterpiece swoops and soars.

Tyallah Bullock and Roxanne McDonald in Before I Forget. Photo: Pia Johnson.
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MTC's powerful dementia drama Before I Forget finds the joy and strength in family

Playwright and director Kamarra Bell-Wykes draws on her own family history for this affecting MTC drama at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Installation view, Passage: The Art of Atong Atem, featuring from left, Atong Atem’s As Above and A facet for every turn, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross.
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Atong Atem’s Passage is a powerful act of cultural reclamation

Atong Atem's major survey exhibition at NGV Australia navigates the power to author one’s own image.

Installation view, The House of Floating Flowers (Ukibana no ie), PUNQ 2026, Japanese House, Ingham. Photo: Luke McLeod. Courtesy: Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.
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House of Floating Flowers brings the outside into a remarkable Queensland home

Presented as part of PUNQ, Mari Hirata's site-specific installation takes over the Japanese House in Ingham in northern Queensland.

Installation view, Rosalie Gascoigne, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2026, featuring Rosalie Gascoigne, Plenty, 1986. Courtesy: Rosalie Gascoigne / Copyright Agency.
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Rosalie Gascoigne’s ageless experimentation shines in sublime retrospective

Three decades since her last retrospective, the National Gallery of Australia gathers the many pieces of Rosalie Gascoigne's career and…

Zane Saunders, Preface, 2026. Performance installation, PUNQ 2026, Old NSW Bank Building, Gurambilbarra/Townsville. Photo: Tszar. Courtesy: the artist.
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Preface takes visual art to the floor at PUNQ in Townsville

Jarrowia, Butchulla and Gunggari artist Zane Saunders is a man of few words, so when he does open his mouth…

Belvoir St Theatre's A Room With a View. Photo: Brett Boardman.
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A Room With a View makes a mischievous splash

Grace Chapple’s adaptation of EM Forster’s 1908 novel plays up the comedy – and the nudity – in an entertaining,…

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