Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week: thriving regional arts, a thriving regional micro-arts business, ‘Beetlejuice the Musical’ reviewed and more.

24 May 2025 9:00

Celina Lei

A woman looking through a pair of opera glasses, illustrating our weekly Arts News Watch column.

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Arts news watch is ArtsHub’s weekly summary of the most-read stories of the last seven days. Photo: Chase Clark, Unsplash.

We take a look at the arts news that pushed to the top of your reading pile this week.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_