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$1 million pilot program: the NSW Screen and Digital Games Strategy for 2025 and beyond

NSW launches a million-dollar program, AI working group and more in a strategy to boost the screen industry.

The late Ryuichi Sakamoto will perform in a virtual performance at Asia TOPA 2025. A white-haired Japanese man in dark glasses and a black shirt poses for the camera with his raised hands held to his lips.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto performs from beyond the grave for Asia TOPA 2025

Melbourne’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns in February 2025, with the first two program highlights revealed today.

A cinema with a screen showing a man, Ben Gillies, formerly of Silverchair, standing with his legs and arms apart at a CLIPPED video session.
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CLIPPED Music Video Festival returns

The country's sole music video festival returns with premiere screenings, conversations and awards.

Multi screen video installation in black and white of woman looking at African objects. Isaac Julien.
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Exhibition review: Isaac Julien, Once Again... (Statues Never Die), MCA

A spectacular exhibition asks the big questions about how museums collect, and show, artworks with Black histories.

Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) tadpoles among lily pads in a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Taken by Shane Gross, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024 winner.
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Opportunities and awards

Invitations to create a living museum in Sydney, core funding from Music Australia, plus next round of Bundanon residents and…

Artists are frustrated by the arts lack of a meritocracy.
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Outrage and resentment: the arts are not a meritocracy

Some parts of the professional industry operate under a veneer of a meritocracy. But artists aren't buying it.

Barking Gecko Arts: five adult people, three male, two female, posing for a group photo at an event in an outdoor courtyard setting.
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New arts merger no forced downsizing, but a chosen path to growth

What started as friendly conversations between two arts CEOs has led to a performing arts company merger designed to benefit…

The inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale at Villa Alba Museum. Pictured are works by Louise Paramor, installation view, large paper sculptures with saturated colour inside a Victorian mansion.
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Exhibition review: 2024 Melbourne Sculpture Biennale, Villa Alba Museum

The first edition of Melbourne Sculpture Biennale quickly found its footing with solid works that spoke to the 2024 theme…

Detail of a terracotta artifact with bird and human heads. Peru. Australian Museum
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Machu Picchu and Incan treasures come to Sydney

From priceless Peruvian gold treasures to a fly-through virtual experience of Machu Picchu, this summer blockbuster promises to be a…

Australian live music is under threat from ticket companies.
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Australian live music faces crisis amid ticketing giants' control

Already challenged by the effects of soaring insurance premiums on small venues and cancelled festivals and events, now Australian live…

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