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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Clearly, bad news is good reading this week. We take a look at the arts news that pushed to the top of the heap this week, including tributes to great creatives lost, walking away from top jobs and funding cuts biting hard.

Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola
Jack Hibberd, the author of Dimboola and one of Australia’s best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina