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Installation view of Chanel Tobler's Dissolving a Marrow Economy at Nasha Gallery, Sydney. Photo: Hamish McIntosh / Nasha Gallery.
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Chanel Tobler at Nasha Gallery: 'Colour can be a form of medicine'

Emerging artist Chanel Tobler moves fluidly between mediums in this solo exhibition at Sydney's Nasha Gallery.

Colin Friels in The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney. Photo: Supplied.
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The Life and Death of King Lear review: maximal title, minimal production

In this telling of King Lear, Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre presents a patchy, minimalist version of one of Shakespeare’s great…

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Christopher Kulendran Thomas review: rethinking safe zones through AI

In Safe Zone, Christopher Kulendran Thomas uses AI to ask powerful questions about how we record and relate to histories…

Gallery setting with paintings of various shapes all still lives on soft blue walls. Mirra Whale
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Clarice Beckett and Mirra Whale review: a shared vision across generations

Nearly a century apart, these women artists demonstrate the enduring appeal of the still life at Ngungunggula regional gallery.

NIDA Open Studios Senior Tutor Louise Birgan. The photograph depicts a fair skinned woman with shoulder length red hair and wearing blue demim overalls over a sleeveless white and blue striped t-shirt. She is sitting on stage at a table, holding a script and is dramatically backlit; rows of theatre seats are visible in the gloom behind her.
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NIDA Open Studios: shaping unique artists through rigorous pre-professional training

Teaching artist Louise Birgan explains how NIDA Open Studio Programs prepare students for professional arts training and practice.

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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

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Strong sales see smaller art fairs pushing ahead of larger events

Big is not always better. This year, the Affordable Art Fairs have shown their muscle with a consistent upward trend…

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6 cool exhibitions to make you think this month

From pool culture to reconstructed t-shirts, coral health and AI’s take on individualism, these exhibitions promise to get you thinking…

fringe festival audiences: a brightly lit outdoor scene crowded with people queuing to enter a performing arts show in a circus tent.
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Which Australian Fringe festival is achieving the greatest growth?

All four of our major fringe festivals continue to draw strong crowds, but one looks likely to be on the…

Joel Bray Dance's 'Garabari' features in the Blak Out program at Sydney Festival 2026.. Three First Nations people, two male-presenting and one female-presenting, pose dramatically on a smoky, yellow-lit back-lit stage. Sydney Festival 2026.
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Sydney Festival 2026 celebrates 50 years of helping shape the city’s culture

Festival Director Kris Nelson discusses his inaugural Sydney Festival program, and looks to the future while celebrating the festival’s legacy.

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