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How the New Normal needs to become the Future Normal
While COVID brought us new conversations around digital pivots and hybrid working models, the real future normal is how to…

Exhibition Review: Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery London
Australia’s first major international exhibition since border closures began, Botticelli to Van Gogh is impressive.

Theatre Review: Whistleblower, The Last Great Hunt (Perth Festival)
Fast-paced, high-stakes interactive improvisation, featuring audience volunteers, as slickly delivered live-stream directed work.

Exhibition Review: Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art
Speculations on the future, and our complicity in it, are at the heart of these four exhibitions featured at Adelaide…

The magic is back: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child returns to the stage
Actors discover muscle memory propelling them across the stage after 49 weeks off, and also discuss the impact of J.K.…

ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
Sculpture by Sea needs help, life drawing on opera stage, WA's Fringe World outcome, QSO goes bush to perform, La…

Theatre Review: The Sum of Us (Perth Festival)
Yirra Yaakin’s The Sum of Us is a tale of a strong family bond, ageing, queerness and the dance we…

Scrapping six Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture
Dr Seuss’s work contains racism and xenophobia, but should we judge him by today’s standards?

Art world to farewell MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor
After 22 years at the helm, taking the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia from near insolvency to international acclaim, Elizabeth…

Opera Review: Bluebeard’s Castle, Opera Australia
This is a power-packed psychological opera squeezed into just 60-minutes, and manages to strike a contemporary #MeToo chord and questions…