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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.

Festivals and the familiar: tradition vs innovation
How do festival directors navigate the tensions between honouring a festival’s past versus celebrating the innovative and the new?

The sector says goodbye to 2017
As the end of the year approaches ArtsHub asks the sector on their 2017 highlights; how they will honour their…

Out with the CEO and in with intrapreneurship
What is intrapreneurship and how is it affecting the future of work? A panel of experts explores how organisations can…

New festival parachutes physical theatre onto a broader stage
The Parachute Festival is a two-day exploration of physical theatre bringing together a host of companies and independents from across…