Victoria
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…
6 signature projects for 2025 YIRRAMBOI festival
Cross-arts First Nations festival announces artist commissions that will define its 2025 event.
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.
$1.2 million boost for public art recognising women
The Victorian Government has committed funds to public art focused on women in Victoria.
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…