Australia

Arts workers describe the pandemic’s impact on their mental health
'Parts of our lives will be damaged forever' - artists and arts workers described how lost work, and low morale,…

Performing Arts Review: Venus and Adonis, St David’s Cathedral (TAS)
Theatre reinvents itself through lush, sexy storytelling in a sacred space.

ARA Historical Novel Prize now the richest genre-based prize for literature
Diversity in historical fiction is honoured with prize money doubling for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize.

ArtsHub speaks with the inaugural Bankstown Biennale Curators
The 2020 Bankstown Biennale is more than a COVID project. It's an artist-led rethinking of Western Sydney, and the value…

Visual Arts Review: A Promise – Khaled Sabsabi, AGNSW
Sabsabi has the capacity to provoke deep questioning of our own racial, religious and political positioning without ostracising the viewer…

New Greek museum in Melbourne aspires to being a world class destination
A collaboration between the Benaki Museum in Athens, property developer ISPT and the Hellenic Museum aims to open a local…

30 semi-finalists announced for Artists of Colour Initiative
A crowd-sourced prize pool will be distributed among six finalists, who will also be in the running for a Diploma…

ACMI renews digital promise in virtual launch
Is the Australian Centre of the Moving Image a place? A Zone? A Cultural Accumulation Machine to defy COVID-19? First…

Book Review: The Mission House by Carys Davies
Davies’ novel seeks to make connections with faith and nationalism in contemporary India.

So you want my arts job: Crossword Maker
David Astle has been setting Crosswords for the Age and Sydney Morning Herald for 35 years and says the skill…