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'Chickenosaurus' installation view from 'NOT NATURAL' at Science Gallery Melbourne. Photo: Matthew Stanton. Graffiti-like artwork of a hybrid chicken and dinosaur in an exhibition space with a large window on the left hand side. Four young people are hanging out in the space.
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Exhibition review: NOT NATURAL, Science Gallery Melbourne

Artistic and scientific works that highlight the relationship between humanity and the natural/unnatural.

Work from the series 'Cocoon' by Terence Lin, selected for the MAPh 'TOPShots 2024' exhibition. Image: Supplied. A digitally manipulated photographic work featuring a close lineup of oval portraits of Asian youths smiling with their eyes closed and wearing red bow ties with a white shirt. The portraits populate a red background.
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Opportunities and awards

Australia's biggest open studios event calls for registrations, plus portraits and landscapes taking out wins and Tasmanian Theatre Awards announced.

Powerhouse Castle Hill. Image: Rory Gardiner. The front entrance to Powerhouse Castle Hill, featuring a minimalistic silver-panelled architecture and large glass doors that also reveals the second floor.
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A new storehouse for the Powerhouse Collection

Powerhouse Castle Hill will provide new levels of access to its exceptional 500,000-strong collection while Powerhouse’s $1.2 billion renewal is…

a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.
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Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth

The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…

Nan Goldin. A group of people dancing the twist in a room.
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Exhibition review: Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Art Gallery of Ballarat

Goldin's photos of the 1970-1980s are both intimate and confronting.

Photo: Margarida Afonso, Unsplash. Spools of colourful yarn stacked together with a pair of knitting needles.
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Australia's capital gearing up for fibre enthusiasts

Canberra welcomes visitors from around the country to the inaugural Australian Yarn Show (23-24 March) and the Canberra Wool Expo…

Qui a tué mon père. A man sits on a stage in front of a backdrop projection of an open road.
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Theatre review: Qui a tué mon père (Who Killed My Father), Adelaide Festival

A personal polemic addressing France’s neglect and contempt of the working class poor.

Exhibition view of hanging organic paper paintings. Neoterica
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Exhibition review: Neoterica, Adelaide Festival

20 artists and 20 writers commissioned in a celebration of South Australian contemporary art.

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ABC TV’s new arts show to feature Trent Dalton and Patricia Piccinini

Australian screen luminaries Warwick Thornton and Marta Dusseldorp are among the six creatives interviewed on the new ABC arts show.

The 39 Steps. A man in a 30s type beige three-piece suit with a pencil moustache is on top of a box, pursued by two men dressed as police officers, also on boxes - all made to look as if it's a chase sequence on a train.
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Theatre review: The 39 Steps, Chapel off Chapel

Inspired by Buchan's novel and Hitchcock's film, this award-winning play is a highly energetic iteration.

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