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21 Jul 2023 9:45

Richard Watts

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Hot off the virtual press, here’s our regular wrap of the week’s most read stories. Photo: Shutterstock.

From circus students expressing their concerns about their future in light of Swinburne University’s recent decision to pause student intakes in 2024, and the perennial question of how to separate art from the artist, to a range of reviews around the country, here are our most read stories of the week.

Can we separate art from the artist?

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts