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elderly man dressed in dark colors looking serious with one eye patch. Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie to speak in Melbourne and Sydney in 2026

Salman Rushdie will deliver a one-night-only address in Melbourne and Sydney in 2026.

Gallery view with painted yellow walls, historic painting and black and white wall vinyls from photographs. Dangerously Modern.
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Dangerously Modern review: fearless women artists who disrupted the male canon

Rewriting Australian art history, ‘Dangerously Modern’ at the Art Gallery of NSW is equally erudite and entertaining.

Gallery installation with dryers and recycled slippers in basement environment. Mike Hewson.
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Mike Hewson’s The Key’s Under the Mat review: arty playground is joyous and chaotic

Mike Hewson shatters taboos and transforms the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank space into a light-filled, living playground.

A scene from Canberra Youth Theatre's 2024 production of 'Work, But This Time Like You Mean It'. Two young men sit on a steeply raked stage, comforting one another; both wear black trousers, black shoes and red and white striped collared shirts. Behind them, three people in identical uniforms but wearing surreal chick head masks, sit at the top of the raked stage.
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Canberra Youth Theatre tour explores fast food industry’s ‘disastrous consequences’

The Sydney tour of ‘Work, But This Time Like You Mean It’ has been supported by a $100,000 gift from…

Heather B Swann. Photo: Matthew Newton.
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With an $80k commission, Heather B Swann embarks on the final series of her lifetime

Heather B Swann's major new project will be exhibited in Sydney in 2026.

Girl with hair pulled back and dark skin looking at gold sculpture in her likeness.
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Major Thomas J Price and Lee Ufan sculptures unveiled at Sydney galleries

What do two new sculptures outside the MCA and AGNSW say about institutional priorities and philanthropy today?

Exhibition view with painted green wall, photographs and jewelry. Helen Britton
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Helen Britton review: a jeweller who is so much more

Internationally celebrated artist Helen Britton totally short circuits how we think about jewellery with wonder.

A sequence from Tegan Jeffrey-Rushton's 'Overture', Adelaide Fringe 2025 season. The prduction is being remounted for IDEA'25. Four dancers perform a contemporary dance production on a red-lit stage.
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IDEA’25: strengthening Sydney's contemporary dance sector

FORM Dance Projects’ second annual Independent Dance Exchange Australia is addressing critical gaps in dance development and presentation opportunities.

Two women looking at art and chatting at an art fair. Sydney Contemporary.
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Was Sydney Contemporary a sales success? The numbers are in

It was always going to be tenuous this year, but was Sydney Contemporary a reflection of a struggling economy, or…

Kala Gare in the MTC's 'My Brilliant Career', 2024. My Brilliant Career the musical is touring in 2026. The photo shows Gare, a fair-skinned woman with blonde hair and weaing a long sleeved white shirt and a dark blue skirt, reading a an unfolded letter and smiling. She is sitting on a pile of straw, denoting the story's rural setting.
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My Brilliant Career the musical will tour ACT and NSW in 2026

My Brilliant Career the musical plays Canberra, Sydney and Wollongong after its previously announced encore season at the Southbank Theatre…

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