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A "well-executed" act of voter fraud was detected for the 2024 Music Victoria Awards. A sun-filled lecture space with a screen displaying "MUSIC VICTORIA".
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Voter fraud wreaks havoc at recent music awards

An incident of voter fraud altered five out of six publicly voted winners of the 2024 Music Victoria Awards.

Jenny Leaper OAM and Dr John Leaper OAM. Two white elderly figures standing next to the Arts Centre Melbourne spire.
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Arts Centre Melbourne boosted with $5 million gift for rebuild

Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building function space will be renamed The Leaper Family Pavilion with their $5 million development pledge.

Australia’s largest street art collection will be on view. Hush Seductress, 2012 (detail). A graffiti work featuring a female figure at the centre wearing a dress made out of different graffiti tags.
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Free opportunity to see Australia’s largest Banksy collection and over 100 street artworks

Be the first to see Banksy’s new work and Australia’s biggest collection of street art.

Audio-visual artist Robin Fox announced as Melbourne Recital Centre's 2025 Artist-in-Residence. Image: 'Constellation', 2021. Photo: Supplied.
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Opportunities and awards

Calling for wearable art entries, international residencies now open, plus winners of NT Performing Arts Awards and more!

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Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season dominated by safe works from the company’s past

After funding constraints led to the abrupt resignation of its last Artistic Director in August, Queensland Ballet’s 2025 season is…

Exterior view of colonial building with palm trees. QUT Art Museum
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QUT Art Museum told to cancel 2025 programming

A lack of vision will destroy one of Australia’s great university galleries, for marginal cost savings comparably.

A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.
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ACT Hub, Canberra’s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hub’s recently…

The annual ARIA awards proved to be an especially diverse celebration in 2024.
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Troye Sivan sweeps ARIA Awards as First Nations talent takes centre stage

Perth-born pop icon Troye Sivan swept the big awards, while Missy Higgins was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for his novel, James. Image is a man in a formal suit standing in front of a media wall.
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Percival Everett wins America's National Book Award

The biggest night in American literature celebrated a diverse group of winners in the shadow of Trump's re-election.

man in black suit smiling in front of abstract landscape painting. Jason Smith
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New director to lead Art Gallery of South Australia

Jason Smith has been announced as the new Director of AGSA.

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