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Affordable Art Fair Melbourne: an aerial view of the art fair venue showing hundreds of art stands.
Features

How can artists make the most of the rise in affordable art fairs?

Australia is one of the Affordable Art Fair's fastest growing markets. While there are opportunities for artists, the big investment…

2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards ceremony, Darwin. Photo: Charlie Bliss.
Interviews

The NATSIAAs are breaking down the polarising divide between city and remote artists

The NATSIAAs are more than an art award. They're also an evolving model of what expanded cultural exchange can look…

Performance Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2025. Photo: Wes Nel Photography.
Industry News

Ten editions on, has the Sydney Contemporary art fair kept its big promises?

While sales have ebbed, signs of market maturity and growing engagement are recalibrating how we register success of Australia’s largest…

Photo: UQ Art Museum.
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Reflecting on Country and creative practice with the UQ Art Museum's online reading group

At the UQ Art Museum, an online reading group for artists and creative practitioners explores Aunty Mary Graham’s writings on…

Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies and Big Little Truths. Photo: Über Photography.
Interviews

Liane Moriarty returns to Big Little Lies: ‘Nobody can change my book’

More than a decade after Big Little Lies took the world by storm, the maestro of mystery Liane Moriarty returns…

Tamara Zimet is the incoming Artistic Director of Sydney Writers' Festival. Photo: Laura Meek.
Industry News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

This week, the Sydney Writers' Festival appoints its new Artistic Director.

Artist's render of 'The Dark', opening at Powerhouse Parramatta on November 7. Photo: Supplied.
News

Leading Australian theatre talents drive Powerhouse Parramatta's illuminating new exhibition

Powerhouse Parramatta reveals full program, with theatremaker Kip Williams tapped for new exhibition The Dark.

David Wenham stars in STC's 'An Iliad'. Photo: Daniel Boud.
News

Sydney Theatre Company's five-star hit An Iliad is touring to Melbourne

David Wenham returns to the stage in STC's acclaimed Trojan War epic, An Iliad.

Composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier. Photo: Supplied.
Opinions & Analysis

Where does the artist begin and end? At Revivification at Now or Never, the answer's far from simple

Composer Alvin Lucier is dead – so why are clumps of his neural tissue powering Revivification at Melbourne's Now or…

Photo: Fabian Centeno / Unsplash.
Career Advice

Best opportunities, grants & awards for creatives this week

Opportunities for 24 to 30 August 2026 include new fellowships, funding and arts prizes.

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