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New galleries and theatres to visit in 2024
From a power station's $100 million facelift to a museum for queer history, here are the top new cultural destinations…
Exhibition review: John Nixon – Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints, Geelong Gallery
An expansive collection of prints by John Nixon reveals his philosophy about blurring the boundaries between art and life.
Book review: Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art, Rodney James
An invitation to know the artist, cartoonist and critic, Alan McCulloch, more intimately than through his writing alone.
Exhibition review: LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA: To breathe with the rhythm of the heart, Warrnambool Art Gallery
A lyrical and symbiotic pairing of fashion design, sculptural installations, painting, embroideries and more by two Australian icons.
Exhibition review: John Meade: It’s Personal!, McClelland Gallery
Humble in scale, but deliciously rich, John Meade’s solo exhibition plays on form and entices intimate viewing.
Prizes and competitions to enter in 2024
A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing and publishing in the first…
Opportunities and awards
International art award in Taiwan, a call-out for a Feminist Historian in Residence, plus winners of the Emerging Playwright Commission…
Regional exclusive Baroque exhibition signals vision, drive and potential
Hamilton Gallery’s world-class Baroque exhibition, 'Emerging From Darkness', reveals much about the vision and ambition of regional cultural tourism with…
Vietnamese museum pitches for new site to secure future
After an unresolved dispute on its original proposed location in Victoria's Footscray, the Vietnamese Museum Australia is now being considered…
Opportunities and awards
Perth Festival calling for young artists, Newcastle Museum and Art Gallery receives extended funding, plus finalists of St Kilda Festival…