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Busting opera wide open: the Pinchgut revolution
Ditching the curtain, delivering surpluses, and winning international awards, Pinchgut is a young company changing the face of opera in…
3 different immersive experiences
The Creative State Summit highlighted immersive works including hotels becoming sets and abandoned buildings becoming canvases.
Turning our phones off for creative inner health
Author Sebastian Smee, musician Holly Throsby and tech psychologist Jocelyn Brewer agree when it comes to switching off to embrace…
So you want my arts job: Google Arts and Culture lead
In this new series we look at some of the best jobs in the arts and ask how people got…
Australia’s Culture Building Boom: Museums
Australia’s cultural sector is under scaffolding as it faces a building boom. In this new series, we look first at…
Disability Arts: the last avant-garde?
Is it a movement or a right? A disability-led panel takes the pulse on aligning rhetoric and action when it…
Stories in ink: The ancient artwork informing modern tattoo practice
A new exhibition explores the history of Japanese traditional tattoo culture, tracing its development as a cultural artform and influence…
Pop goes the orchestra!
Don't make the mistake of conflating populist with unsophisticated when you're discussing the repertoire of a contemporary orchestra.
Rise of the must-see exhibition
Australia has been pretty comfortable with the blockbuster exhibition since the 1970s, but a new book unpacks what such exhibitions…
Why 'suburban' is no longer a dirty word
The evolution of our cities has resulted in the rise of arts centres in the very same suburbs that artists…