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A promotional image for Black Swan’s 2025 production, ‘August: Osage County’. Five actors pose for the camera against a bacldrop formed by a bright red field and a blue sky. A tree-encircled family home is visible in the distance.
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Black Swan’s 2025 season designed to challenge and nourish audiences

Seven productions are featured in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2025 season, including new Australian works and a modern American…

Street banners for the annual Banyule Open Studios weekend. Several bright yellow banners with the logo of a large rainbow eye at the centre, laying on the lawn. There is the tag line ‘Step into the Artists’ World’ and the dates ‘Oct 12-13’.
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Artists erased from open studio event to maintain integrity in Council election

Artist and candidate Martin Hirst says the Banyule City Council has overstepped its responsibility in its 'knee-jerk' reaction during the…

‘How Art Works’ by Chloe Watfern. Watfern is shown in a photo on the left, a woman with pale skin and tied back brown hair, wearing large circular earrings and a blue and white circular scoop neck top. On the right is a cover of the book with a. Series of black and white prints with faces drawn on, and the title ‘HOW ART WORKS’
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Book review: How Art Works: Stories from Supported Studios, Chloe Watfern

Spotlighting artists with intellectual disabilities and their ways of art-making, ‘How Art Works’ is an insightful must-have for every arts…

The ‘Linear Horizons’ cohort in Gimuy/Cairns, taking part in a First Nations and Filipino printmaking initiative. In the photo is a group of 17 people standing under a large tree outside.
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Sharing stories and culture: Filipino and First Nations printmaking initiative takes off

Hosted by NorthSite in Gimuy/Cairns, ‘Linear Horizons’ aims to foster stronger intercultural connections through printmaking.

A young First Nations boy with red and white striped face paint across his brow and a green brimmed hat, and a ragged denim sleeveless jacket roars at the camera. The Future and Other Fictions. the Love Punks, Sutu
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From Björk to Blade Runner 2049: revisioning the future at ACMI

The Future & Other Fictions is a major new exhibition focused on screen culture’s ability to imagine a better world.

An inverted triangle with a chunk taken out of it is covered with black and white print and sitting on a small plinth. A white spotlight is shining on it.
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Exhibition review: Bandarr Wirrpanda and Yinimala Gumana: Timeless, MAGMA Galleries

MAGMA Galleries showcases spectacular contemporary Indigenous Australian art

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.

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