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A shoal of red and gold fish swimming in turquoise waters. Sorrento Art Prize
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New $125,000 art prize reminds us to ask questions

Is the Sorrento Art Prize a concern? We take a look at Australia's newest and richest offering.

Laak Boorndap. A gardener in a pink shirt and grey cap is tending a flower bed in an urban garden alongside a path on which people are walking. In the foreground a young blonde girl dressed in white is crouched down touching flowers.
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Invitation for a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung artist to create a permanent commission in new Melbourne urban garden

The Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation project is seeking Expressions of Interest for an artwork to be situated in Laak Boorndap’s…

Laak Boorndap. A gardener in a pink shirt and grey cap is tending a flower bed in an urban garden alongside a path on which people are walking. In the foreground a young blonde girl dressed in white is crouched down touching flowers.
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Unique opportunity to create a permanent artwork for new Melbourne urban garden

The Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation project is now seeking Expressions of Interest for an artwork to be situated in Laak…

A scene from 'Cinderella' ('Cendrillon') at Royal Opera House 2011; Laurent Pelly’s production has been programmed as part of Opera Australia's 2025 Sydney season. Four performers in horse costumes draw a carriage shaped like the letter C, in which a woman in a white ball gown is singing.
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Opera Australia launches 2025 season with four musicals and homegrown talent

The national opera company’s 2025 season features a mix of accessible and canonical works.

Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional.
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Charlotte Wood Shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

The beloved author is the first Australian writer to be shortlisted in a decade. No Australian woman has ever won…

Two panels. On the left is a photo of author Charlotte Wood. She has short white hair and is wearing an orange top. On the right is the cover of her book, 'Stone Yard Devotional'. A sparse, treeless landscape with billowing clouds and a collection of stones. There is a lone person walking in the distance.
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Book review: Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood's book deserves its spot on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.

Two female dancers leaping on stage. Tara Gower
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The Artist Fund helping conquer the mid-career 'turning point'

Minderoo’s Artist Fund is shaping the future for mid-career WA artists and communities, in an ambitious, artist-led way.

Two panels. On the left is author Sally Hepworth. She is blonde and sitting, wearing a green ensemble. On the right is author Andy Griffiths. He is wearing a black t-shirt and has his arms crossed. There are tattoos on his arms.
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Love Your Bookshop Day announces ambassadors 

Authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural ambassadors for 2024 Love Your Bookshop Day campaign.

two young women playing a guitar.
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Women leading the return of the guitar’s popularity

After declining guitar sales for over a decade, a turnaround is in sight, led by women and festivals like the…

In a blue-lit stage, two young men, Nelson Clay and Corey Saylor-Brunskill, are standing on a box-like structure.
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Theatre review: The Box, various Tasmanian venues

A complex story of trying to break out of the "box" of public housing and of identity prejudices.

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