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A 60-year-old First Nations woman with short gray hair smiling at the camera. She is wearing a red leather jacket and patterned neck scarf, standing in front of a vibrant artwork with large circles in red, orange, blue and yellow colours.
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Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, Lionel Fogarty and Dr Shelley Morris AO honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards

Trailblazing creatives and practitioners were celebrated at the 2025 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards on Tuesday night.

A group of five people (Venice Biennale 2026 curatorial team) standing on stage at a press conference with a projection of Koyo taking a selfie with a big smile showing between them.
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Venice Biennale 2026 will carry out vision of late curator Koyo Kouoh after her sudden death

Venice Biennale 2026 will not select a new curator, and instead, will honour Koyo Kouoh by realising her theme, ‘In…

A black and white still from a video work depicting a single lone figure lying on their side in the middle of a concrete pen, with a crowd of blurry people walking in a large circle around them. A single onlooker is standing to the bottom of the image.
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Biennale of Sydney 2026 prompted by forgotten histories

The first 37 artists participating in Biennale of Sydney 2026 represent rich diasporic voices that will explore “the hidden effects…

Two woman holding each other by the shoulders with warm smiles. On the left is Karolina Ristevski, a middle-aged woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and red lipstick, and on the right is Sheridan Harbridge, a younger woman with her hair in an up-do and wearing a patterned black and white top. They appear to be standing in a corridor with pink lights behind them.
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Opportunities and awards

Commission opportunities in Perth and Victoria, plus 2025 NAS Fellows and Griffin Award winners announced.

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Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week: thriving regional arts, a thriving regional micro-arts business, ‘Beetlejuice the Musical’…

Two photos of the Visiting Creatives artists collaged together side by side. On the left is Jeff Koons, a white middle-aged man wearing a blue long sleeve collared shirt. On the right is Jeffery Gibson, a middle-aged Native American man with a gray beard, gray hat, blue shirt, standing in front of a work with a diamond shape in psychedelic colours of blue, orange and red.
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Visiting Creatives Program brings Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson to town

The US artists will be in Canberra this year to present public talks and help bring recognition to Australian art.

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Art Basel sets its eyes on the Middle East with new fair in 2026

As established markets decline, Art Basel seeks new wealth – and new talent.

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Arts news watch: this week’s trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week: famous opening lines, Venice Biennale curator's death, a 75-25 arts space…

A production on stage with a woman sitting inside a carriage shaped like the letter ‘C’. Opera Australian production.
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Opera Australia operating at a $10 million deficit

Opera Australia's latest announcement of significant financial losses is the latest in a long string of problems for the company.

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High hopes for Aboriginal art in major New York auction

Sotheby’s is once again working with Tim Klingender Fine Art in what they hope will be another record-breaking auction featuring…

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