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Intricate line illustration featuring people and birds, Portrait Settings' by Nusra Latif Qureshi
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Exhibition review: Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions, Art Gallery of New South Wales

An exhibition that references and utilises past practices to reflect on current preoccupations.

The all male cast of 'The Inheritance.' Eight men wearing largely shades of white are gathered around a man in black seated with a laptop.
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Theatre review: The Inheritance, Seymour Centre

This marathon production, based on the seminal E M Forster novel 'Howards End', makes huge demands of the audience –…

Nusra Latif Qureshi, ‘On the edges of darkness II’, an intricate gouache work depicting one figure balancing on the shoulder of another holding red strings in their hands against a pistachio green background.
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5 exhibitions with contemporary diaspora artists reimagining traditional mediums

Discover miniature court paintings, ceramics, family albums, Japanese woodblock prints and more by contemporary diaspora artists.

Heather Mitchell in Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘RBG: Of Many, One’ by Suzie Miller. A sharp-looking elderly woman dressed in black sitting on a white armchair with one of her hands framing her chin.
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Suzie Miller’s RBG: Of Many, One revived for 2025 national tour due to popular demand

The celebrated Suzie Miller play capturing the life of US Supreme Court associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will return in…

The exterior of an old two-storey sandstone building on a campus with trees around it. National Arts School.
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What do art schools teach? How to be yourself

Artist and educator Akala Newman says that, while teaching at the National Art School, she has seen students grow their…

Eight musicians on stage at the Second Iranian Music Festival.
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Music review: Dela Ensemble, Second Iranian Music Festival

This troupe aims to introduce traditional Iranian music to a wider audience.

A scene from the STC season of 'Golden Blood'. Photo: Prudence Upton. Two Asian-Australian actors, a young woman and a young man, kneel on an orange-lot stage.
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Theatre review: Golden Blood, Wharf Theatre

Sydney Theatre Company presents Merlynn Tong's acclaimed Griffin Theatre production.

A man is standing beside a black and white painting of a racing greyhounds.
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Exhibition review: Tommy Carman: Well Heeled, Mega

Tommy Carman's paintings riff on a mix of photorealism and the abstract.

A black and white shot of the exterior of theatre in the 1960s with people in front of it using a pedestrian crossing. The Footbridge Theatre.
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Sydney’s beloved Footbridge Theatre is making a grand return

The theatre launched some of our biggest stars and is reopening after nearly 20 years, writes Laura Ginters.

'A Modern Murder' at Sydney Festival is sure to be a 2025 program highlight. A blonde woman in a short-sleeved red dress and red hat smiles flirtatiously from the dock in an old-fashioned courtroom. A swarm of photographers and radio-men crowd around her.
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From true crime to post-colonialism: Sydney Festival launches its 2025 season

Olivia Ansell’s final Sydney Festival as Director grapples with big questions and has factored the cost of living crisis into…

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