Australia
Perth Festival 2026 makes the most of its city’s cultural infrastructure shortage
Artistic Director Anna Reece reveals how her second Perth Festival takes over the city’s public and private spaces.
Banquet review: captivating circus tackles the big issues
This innovative performance uses circus arts to explore class themes, but who's invited to the banquet?
Salman Rushdie to speak in Melbourne and Sydney in 2026
Salman Rushdie will deliver a one-night-only address in Melbourne and Sydney in 2026.
Government policy champions youth arts, so why is funding slipping?
The benefits for young people are well documented, but leaders in youth arts say greater commitment is needed.
Linden New Art
Coral Futures
Coral Futures brings together new and recent projects by First Nations and other contemporary Australian artists, considering coral’s importance to the…
On the move: latest arts sector appointments
Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.
Dangerously Modern review: fearless women artists who disrupted the male canon
Rewriting Australian art history, ‘Dangerously Modern’ at the Art Gallery of NSW is equally erudite and entertaining.
Fell review: Luke George’s performance leaves you hanging
Performed in a working saw mill, Luke George rivets audiences in a highly physical and poetic work for The Unconformity…
The Unconformity review: a festival that finds its own way
One of Australia's most remote arts festivals has no problem drawing audiences for its unique embedded, and genuine, program.