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This week’s arts news and trending topics

Our weekly wrap of arts news and reviews from around the country, and the stories you may have missed.

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Can Australian art survive the AI revolution? ANA report explores challenges and opportunities

A New Approach CEO Kate Fielding is optimistic that AI can help drive Australia's cultural future.

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Book review: Travelling to Tomorrow, Yves Rees

The stories of pioneering Australian women who sought adventures across the Pacific a century ago.

An Indian man, Ceejay Singh, is standing next to three signposts that say 'New Dehli,'Adelaide' and 'Sydney'
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Comedy Review: The Good Immigrant, Trades Hall

A new Indian immigrant to Australia reflects on culture shocks and similarities between the two countries.

'The Rapture', featuring Cleo Rapture, Miss Peaches, Mama Medusa and Marlena Dali. Four performers standing in low purple lighting striking a pose.
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Performance review: The Rapture, Sydney Fringe Festival

Cleo Rapture returns with a strip circus confessional.

A woman and two man are standing around an elderly woman in a wheelchair in the production of 'Operation Boomerang.'
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Theatre review: Operation Boomerang, Subiaco Arts Centre

Can an Indigenous family help their gran escape from the old folks' home?

Render of ‘HOME’, Australian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Australia’s entry to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale hits the 'No' Referendum vote head on

A First Nations creative team has been selected for the Australian national pavilion in Venice with an 'Indigenous education amphitheatre'.

A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.
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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

‘Party Ghost’ with performers Olivia Porter and Jarred Dewey at NAFA. Two acrobatic performers, one sitting on the head of the other while balancing on his hands.
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Performance reviews: North Australian Festival of Arts 2024 round-up

ArtsHub’s take on four shows at this year’s North Australian Festival of Arts, including dance, circus and physical theatre.

Two men and a trans woman sit at a table with a white table cloth in a production of 'Chasing Dick: A Love Story'.
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Theatre review: Chasing Dick: A Love Story, Theatre Works

Dax Carnay-Hanrahan’s new production is powered by three sensational performances.

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