This week’s arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week’s top arts news stories.
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Every Friday, we summarise ArtsHub’s most-read stories of the week in order to bring you up to speed with the latest arts industry news you may have missed. Here are the news stories and reviews that caught our readers’ eyes this week.

Managing Director leaves MSO: Peter Garrett to conduct independent external review

Sophie Galaise has left the MSO following recent controversy, and after the Orchestra’s musicians sent a collective statement of “no confidence” in senior management to the Board.

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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