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Creative Australia reinstates Khaled Sabsabi, authors join AI backlash, regional funding discrimination, and more.
4 Jul 2025 9:00
Celina Lei
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Each Saturday, we summarise ArtsHub’s most-read stories of the week in order to bring you up to speed with the latest arts news you may have missed. Here are the news stories – both industry oriented and public facing – reviews and career articles that caught our readers’ eyes over the last seven days.

Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino reinstated as 2026 Venice Biennale creatives

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former 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_

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