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Spray gun philosophy: Katharina Grosse on painting
A new installation at Carriageworks is the next chapter in Grosse’s somewhat unorthodox journey with painting. What drives her and…

The Merry Widow
With Hollywood-style production numbers, glamorous Deco sets and divas worthy of the title, The Merry Widow is a winner.

Vale: Alun Leach-Jones
Once you start to realise you can become a painter, the only way you can become really major, is to…

What does 2018 hold for the visual arts?
You can tell a lot about a year by the topics that garner attention. We surveyed the exhibitions scheduled for…

Hyper Real
This exhibition both surprised and excited, and I was delighted to be thrown off guard and proven wrong.

The Big List: the visual arts in 2017
2017 was big: big empathy, big blockbusters, big harassment, big lobbying and big shifts in the visual arts ecology as…

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
Junction Arts reshuffle; Melbourne Fringe Festival producer announced; New Chair for Wheeler Centre; Musica Viva CEO honoured and new Ten…

To those we lost in 2017, vale
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2017.

The most popular stories of 2017
We look back over the most-read stories of the year and ask what they say about the zeitgeist across the…

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
Australia Council appoints Director of Theatre; new Executive Director for MQFF; new Chair for NETS Victoria Board, and changes at…