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fringe festival audiences: a brightly lit outdoor scene crowded with people queuing to enter a performing arts show in a circus tent.
Features

Which Australian Fringe festival is achieving the greatest growth?

All four of our major fringe festivals continue to draw strong crowds, but one looks likely to be on the…

Helen Garner. Photo: Darren James / Text.
Features

Why do we love Helen Garner so much?

From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better…

Joel Bray Dance's 'Garabari' features in the Blak Out program at Sydney Festival 2026.. Three First Nations people, two male-presenting and one female-presenting, pose dramatically on a smoky, yellow-lit back-lit stage. Sydney Festival 2026.
Features

Sydney Festival 2026 celebrates 50 years of helping shape the city’s culture

Festival Director Kris Nelson discusses his inaugural Sydney Festival program, and looks to the future while celebrating the festival’s legacy.

Monica Davidson and the C+B team, who have helped deliver Business Connect. Photo: Kate Williams.
Features

NSW Treasury pulls plug on creative Business Connect mentorship program

Despite outstanding results, a unique New South Wales program supporting creative businesses and freelancers is being wound up. ArtsHub speaks…

stacked bowls with green and natural glazes. Craft.
News

Australian Pacific Craft Alliance: new organisation launches

Dedicated to advocacy, and the promotion of crafts in the Asia Pacific, a new alliance heads up in Perth.

Company members of 'Gatz' by the American Repertory Theatre; the production can be seen at Adelaide Festival 2026. The photo shows six performers seated and standing around an office table as playing cards rain down around them.
Features

Adelaide Festival 2026: Matthew Lutton reveals his inaugural program

Lutton discusses the creative shift required in programming a festival instead of a theatre company, and why he has not…

Boorloo Contemporary at East Perth Power Station (seen here in 2025) returns for Perth Festival 2026. An industrial-looking building lit up by brightly coloured projects, and photographed from the air at night; a large crowd is gathered in the building's expansive courtyard.
Interviews

Perth Festival 2026 makes the most of its city’s cultural infrastructure shortage

Artistic Director Anna Reece reveals how her second Perth Festival takes over the city’s public and private spaces.

disguised robber with stolen diamonds in their hand. The Louvre heist
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The Louvre heist: how will the thieves hide these jewels?

A jewellery insurance expert and a professor specialising in art crimes, explain what comes next following the Louvre heist.

youth arts: a photo of two teenage girls standing in an art gallery space looking at two contemporary art paintings that hang on two different walls of the gallery.
Features

Government policy champions youth arts, so why is funding slipping?

The benefits for young people are well documented, but leaders in youth arts say greater commitment is needed.

Nell in her Powerhouse Museum studio in Sydney. Photo: Mark Pokorny.
Interviews

‘You can't unread a smile’: Nell opens joyful 30-year survey Face Everything

Nell talks to ArtsHub about simplicity, spirituality and the difficult task of choosing work for her major survey at Heide…

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