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Spray gun philosophy: Katharina Grosse on painting
A new installation at Carriageworks is the next chapter in Grosse’s somewhat unorthodox journey with painting. What drives her and…
Free to fail: the joy of risk in the regions
Programming any new work can be a risk, given that it’s harder to market and sell the unknown. But regional…
Rocky Horror allegations throw a spotlight on acting boundaries, on and off stage
Where do the boundaries lie between exploring every possibility an acting role offers and still behaving appropriately, with respect to…
What to look out for in 2018: performing arts
We’ve scoured season brochures and websites for the upcoming year; here are some of the many productions and performances we…
Far from being in crisis, 2017 was a great year for Australian musical theatre
A culture of developing and performing home-grown Musical Theatre is building and we are moving towards more commercial productions of…
How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death
Expanded painting frees us from having to find the timeless essence of painting. Instead it's a changing pact between artist,…
The Big List: the visual arts in 2017
2017 was big: big empathy, big blockbusters, big harassment, big lobbying and big shifts in the visual arts ecology as…
The best of performing arts in 2017
From opera and contemporary dance to comedy and drama, here are the productions that thrilled and impressed us this year.
2017: the headlines
As the year draws to a close, we look back on some of the major news stories of 2017.
To those we lost in 2017, vale
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2017.