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Lack of clarity in new hate speech laws impacting artists, arts bodies warn

The National Association for the Visual Arts and the Australian Cartoonists Association have expressed concerns over 'hastily introduced' new hate…

Takashi Murakami 'Cherry Blossoms Fujiyama JAPAN' (detail), 2020, acrylic and platinum leaf and gold leaf on canvas mounted on aluminum frame, 50 × 212.5 cm © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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Takashi Murakami: major retrospective of Japanese artist to be held in Sydney this year

An exhibition of work by acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be presented in Sydney in December 2026.

Image: Billy Bain, Dharug people, Dog Walker (Plan B), 2023, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2024 © Billy Bain.
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First Nations ceramics exhibition Of This Earth starts national tour in Cairns

Of This Earth features works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to showcase diverse techniques, narratives and innovations.

Michael Cook, Bidjara people, Majority Rule (Tunnel), 2014. Image: © Michael Cook.
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Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific to open at the V&A

Work by Australian artists, including Naomi Hobson and Michael Cook, will feature at the Rising Voices exhibition in May.

Artist Khaled Sabsabi (right, a middle-aged man wearing all black) and curator Michael Dagostino (left, a middle-aged man with long gray hair wearing all black) for the 2026 Venice Biennale. They are standing at the corner of a graffitied shopfront.
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Khaled Sabsabi: first details of Venice Biennale presentation

Khaled Sabsabi has revealed his work for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore spirituality and migration.

Liam Fleming with his Loewe Craft Prize finalist work, Patterns of Pressure, 2025. Photo: Grant Hancock.
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What I learnt as an artist judging an international craft prize

In a major coup, two Australians made the cut in the international Loewe Craft Prize. We speak to one of…

Carsten Nicolai's installation Bausatz Noto (1998) at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb. A dark skinned woman wearing a red leather jacket and headphones listens to music at a desk of turntables. A rack of brightly coloured vinyl records stands behind her.
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London's The Vinyl Factory coming to ACMI for RISING

The Vinyl Factory: Reverb is an expansive exhibition about the grooves music has left in history and culture.

Thelma 2024 (detail) by National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 Finalist, Em Jensen | opportunities and awards
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 16 to 22 February 2026

Closing soon: amazing opportunities for musicians, photographers, poets and literary journals.

The late Jon Kudelka. A plump, smiling fair-skinned man with short brown hair and a short beard. He is smiling, wears a plaid shirt, and sits in front of a colourful yellow backdrop.
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Vale Tasmanian cartoonist and artist Jon Kudelka

Remembered and admired for his Walkley-winning political cartoons, as well as his illustrations and anti-Tasmanian tourism stance, Kudelka died on…

Woman with Lebanese heritage with dark hair and cream suit. Vale Dame Marie Bashir
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Vale: January saw the loss of heavyweights of arts patronage and artists

Vale Dame Marie Bashir, Michael Gleeson-White and Rob Hirst. We salute creatives and arts patrons who died this month.

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