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10 May 2024 11:06

Richard Watts

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Photo: Bank Phrom, Unsplash.

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As Melbourne Art Book Fair gears up for its 10th anniversary, ArtsHub asks how art and design books have survived the blow of digital publishing.

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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