Melbourne
2025 Melbourne Art Fair’s new Fair Director hopes to build artists’ voices
With over 10 years of experience in art consulting, Melissa Loughnan looks to drive the Melbourne Art Fair with artists…
Jewellery biennial to launch across Melbourne
Radiant Pavilion returns for its first in-person event since 2019, showcasing contemporary jewellery and object makers from far and wide.
Exhibition review: Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions, ACCA
Large-scale works grounded in material investigations shine at the 2024 Macfarlane Commissions, but is it still helpful to put emerging…
No Vacancy: a gallery hiding in plain sight
Located in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, No Vacancy is driving a new type of art appreciation.
Exhibition review: Emerging Artist Award 2024, fortyfivedownstairs
Topical and engaging, the Emerging Artist Award showcases early-career talent regardless of age.
Theatre review: A Streetcar Named Desire, Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
The MTC's take on Williams' 20th century classic impresses, but lacks genuine menace.
Theatre review: La Belle Epoque, Theatre Works
A multimedia play that interweaves different art forms to tell the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Performance review: Popera: Sex, Death & Politics, The Butterfly Club
Uma Dobia plays a feminist icon in 'Popera', ready to stamp out opera’s entrenched sexism in sparkly knee-high boots.
Music review: Dan Sultan x MSO, Hamer Hall
This masterful collaboration demonstrated the immense power of elevating First Nations voices on the orchestral stage.
Theatre review: Elegies: A Song Cycle, fortyfivedownstairs
A new production company makes its premiere with a slick and funnier than expected rendition of songs about losing loved…