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The cast of 'Classifried': two women and three men are emoting and gesticulating.
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Theatre review: Classifried! The MKUltra Sitcom, The Butterfly Club

The theatre audience becomes a sitcom audience in this comedic offering.

2024 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipient Leigh Rigozzi in front of 'The Complete Works of Pieter Bruegel 2022-2024'. Rigozzi is a man with fair skin, short cropped brown hair and a graying beard, wearing black rimmed glasses and a speckled shirt, smiling at the camera and standing in front of a series of colourful illustrations.
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Opportunities and awards

Canberra Theatre Centre seeking performance makers, 2024 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards winners and ARA Historical Novel prize shortlist, plus…

A white walled gallery space showing a series of large minimalist abstract paintings that have white, grey and cream colours.
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The case for 'quiet paintings' in turbulent times

The allure of abstract art is a mysterious thing. But an artist with 50+ years’ experience in the genre sheds…

Person in gallery with pastel coloured abstract paintings. Lesley Dumbrell
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Exhibition review: Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum, five decades of practice at AGNSW

'Thrum' perfectly describes the consistent vibration and pure pleasure at the heart of Dumbrell's practice for five decades.

Woman dressed in black looking at art in white galelry space.
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Revolving doors: galleries close and others expand

ArtsHub looks at recent independent gallery closures, balanced with news of expansions and new venues that have opened.

Colarado's Takács Quartet will collaborate with Australian actor Angie Milliken in Musica Viva Australia's 2025 season. One woman and three men, the members of a string quartet, play on a wooden stage against a blue-lit backdrop.
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A year of innovation and tradition for Musica Viva Australia in 2025

Musica Viva Australia has launched an expansive, evocative season for the coming year, celebrating 80 years of chamber music with…

A young man with fuzzy brown hair and dressed in shades of blue is standing up and reading from a book among a seated crowd of people.
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Story Week 2024's program to foster 'Common-Unity'

This festival wants to close the distance between artist and audience.

Two panels. On the left is a smiling woman, Jumaana Abdu, wearing a taupe and white hijab. On the right is the cover of her novel, Translations, which features a woman also wearing a head veil. Her face is overlaid with some intricate patterns.
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Book review: Translations, Jumaana Abdu

A psychological journey that canvasses the depths of identity and trauma and explores the gaps of language.

A group of people are gathered around a feast of food at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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Eat your art out at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024

A food theme adds spice to many of this year’s acts.

Myles Russell-Cook to lead ACCA. A young First Nations man with pale skin, short cropped brown hair and beard, wearing large clear frame glasses and a t-shirt with the text 'To look/without fear', standing in front of a colourful painting with dot work.
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Myles Russell-Cook moves from NGV to ACCA as Artistic Director and CEO

Taking the reins from Max Delany, Myles Russell-Cook looks to cement ACCA as a leader in contemporary Australian art.

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