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This week's arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

Rel Pham, ‘HYPERTHREAD’ installation view at National Communication Museum. An installation with columns that show red neon text rolling across the screen.
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The new National Communication Museum boosting cultural capital in this Melbourne suburb

Outside of Melbourne’s CBD, the National Communication Museum has the potential to draw crowds to a budding cultural hub.

A woman, Sahara Beck, wearing a white and black outfit is standing with a microphone. A drag queen in a black leotard, is standing beside her, back to back.
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Performance review: Bite Club: 2nd Serve, Arts Centre Melbourne

The Brief's Factory troupe returns to entertain and scandalise with their circus tricks.

Trent Dalton, a smiling man with brown hair ins sitting in a garden in front of a grey sculpture.
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Trent Dalton becomes an Honorary Fellow at University of Southern Queensland

Trent Dalton returns full circle to the educational institute that first encouraged his storytelling skills.

A publicity image for Griffin Theatre Company's 2025 production 'Naturism'. A naked woman stands with her back to the camera, her buttocks and natural curves on show. She holds a pair of sunglasses in one hand, and is surrounded by stylised 3D plants.
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Griffin Theatre Company’s 2025 season celebrates immediacy and finds common ground

In 2025, Griffin thematically bridges social and generational divides while also celebrating theatre’s ability to predict the future.

A promotional image for Queensland Theatre's 2025 production 'Malacañang Made Us'. A young Filipino person in ragged shorts, thongs and a mesh t-shirt reclines in an ornate gold and velvet throne.
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Queensland Theatre launches 2025 season with AD’s role still vacant

A triumvirate of Associate Artistic Directors have programmed the company’s 2025 season, which includes two world premieres of very local…

Two men and two wome are seated. All are drinking. All are wearing colourful clothes. The design colours are bright graphic prints.
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Theatre review: The Puzzle, Dunstan Playhouse

State Theatre South Australia celebrates 50 years of the Dunstan Playhouse with a David Williamson world premiere.

a pair of vintage water skis on a boat shed door in an exhibition. 'Accidentally Wes Anderson'
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Exhibition review: Accidentally Wes Anderson, Melbourne CBD

You don't have to be an Anderson fan to enjoy this exhibition, but you definitely need to admire his aesthetic.

Artwork by Khaled Sabsabi hang from the ceilings. There is a video still on the left.
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Exhibition review: Khaled Sabsabi, The Lock Up

A significant survey of works from the renowned Lebanese Australian artist.

Artistic rendering of the 2024 Shine on Gimuy Artstory Light Walk, featuring yellow illuminated large-scale dilly bags hanging from tree branches. Below a group of four people are walking on the path.
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Shine on Gimuy returns to illuminate tropical city in 2024

Led by arts festival supremo Rhoda Roberts AO, Shine on Gimuy centres illuminated displays by First Nations creatives.

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