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An exhibition to cure your social distancing blues
Following a year of COVID isolation, an engaging exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery showcases intimacy, love and connection.
What's Budget 2021-22 got for the arts?
The short answer is not much more. The longer answer looks at flat funding for the Australia Council and previously…
New series RISING Podcast 2021: the audio guide to Melbourne’s winter festival
A new festival deserves a new approach to the way artists share and discuss the ideas that inform their work.
How a long-term approach to artistic development has benefitted Canberra’s artists
A considered approach to developing artists’ careers over many years is a cornerstone of practice at The Street Theatre.
How festivals are coming out of COVID
After 2020’s postponements, festivals are back with a renewed focus on the local, exciting audiences across the nation.
The funding that builds career resilience
COVID-19 venue closures in the performing arts could have left some artists out in the cold. But award-winning Canberran playwright…
Discover the photographer behind Australia’s most iconic moments
NFSA celebrates the 60-year career of the prolific Indigenous photojournalist Mervyn Bishop with an exhibition in Canberra only until August.
Exhibition Review: Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise, Hota Gallery
An impressive collection hang speaks to a legacy of patronage, while the inaugural exhibition Solid Gold celebrates local artists -…
The 2021 budget must think big and reinvest in the social capital of ideas
The cash splash of the COVID-19 recovery budget should be used to place arts and creativity at the centre of…
Vale Ku Ku Imidiji man Arone Meeks, Chair of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Boomalli co-founder, teacher, Indigenous health care activist, and internationally collected Queensland artist, Arone Meeks has died aged 64. He leaves…