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'The Final Line'. Photo: Courtesy the Great Indian Theatre Company.
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Theatre review: The Final Line, Nexus Theatre

The Great Indian Theatre Company’s debut work is by turns epic, grand and farcical.

'Hajji and her daughters', an artwork by Amani Haydar. Image: Supplied, courtesy of Amani Haydar.
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Arts with law: a complementary and powerful combination

Creating social change and addressing the inadequacies of systems around gendered violence, through arts and law's intersection.

What art ought to be. Image is of four people sitting on a stage in front of an audience, in conversation. On the left a woman of Asian appearance, with long dark hair, on her right a woman of Aboriginal appearance in grey and on her right a Caucasian man in black with long grey hair - and they are all looking at a woman on the far right in colourful crocheted attire.
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What art ought to be through practice and engagement

Key topics raised at the recent Sydney Ideas talk on the importance of art in uncovering stories, connecting cultures, and…

Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America. Image is a woman standing in front of a blackboard writing, the blackboard has NEW YORK 2003 in large letters.
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Prophecy comes full circle in Heirs of America

Dr Robert Reid’s sequel to Stephen Sewell’s post 9/11 classic comes at a time when so much of what the…

Disaster. Image is of ‘Le Freak’ at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023, with a backdrop of flames behind a devilish figure with horns and one arm raised.
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Performance reviews: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America, and Le Freak, Melbourne Fringe Festival

A successful, spine-tingling sequel and good hour of circus entertainment.

The Mission. Image is of a man in black T-shirt and jacket with short dark hair, looking at the camera, standing in front of a dark backdrop including blurry Old Master paintings.
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Bizarre art heist in regional WA the focus of new documentary series

In the mid-1980s, 26 European masterpieces were slashed out of their frames at a WA bush monastery. Now a new…

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Exhibition review: Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes, Heide Museum of Modern Art

A bold exhibition that traverses cultures while highlighting our connections.

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Exhibition review: Hoda Afshar – A Curve is a Broken Line, AGNSW

This exhibition is the artist's first major solo and lives up to the visual and contextual depth of her works.

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Exhibition review: Jemima Wyman, Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne

With each meticulously constructed collage, Jemima Wyman’s solo exhibition ‘World Cloud’ offers viewers transcendence.

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Queer and present danger: Part 3

The final part of this series details the careers of young drag queens, Linh Uendo and Kitty Obsidian, amid the…

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