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This week's arts news and trending topics
This week's top arts news stories and most read reviews.
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Winter warmers: 18 new art books to curl up with
Warm up with these new art publications hot off the press.
![Mark Valenzuela, recipient of 2025 Porter Street Commission, in his studio. Photo: Rosina Possingham. A middle-aged man of Filipino descent with a shortly trimmed black beard smiling. He is wearing a brown cap with a green jacket and hands in his pockets. In the background is a studio setting with an array of objects on shelves.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Mark-Valenzuela-Photography-Rosina-Possingham-e1719893500972.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Music Victoria Awards open for nominations, ATYP casting, plus winners of ceramic prize, and more!
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Miles Franklin shortlist 2024
Small press publishers dominate the shortlist at this year's Miles Franklin Award.
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This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
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Opportunities and awards
Call for artworks from refugee artists, plus winners at National Portrait Gallery, recipients of the Regional Arts Fund and more!
![Festival of Dangerous Ideas return to Carriageworks. Photo: Courtesy of FODI. A chaotic stage with a person wearing an earth globe on its head and the signs ‘it doesn’t have to be THE END’.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4225.jpeg?w=310)
Can a festival provoke for all the best reasons?
At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, nothing seems to be off the table – from a meditation on genocide to…
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This week's arts news and trending topics
We break it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
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Creativity boost as university partners with Island magazine Â
A new collaboration will see benefits flow to writing students.
![Darling Portrait Prize 2024 Art Handlers' Award winner, Nena Salobir, 'Self Portrait on Washcloth', 2024. Image: Supplied. The residue of makeup such as mascara and lipstick made an imprint on a white washcloth.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/i17937-e1718692780385.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Entries open for digital literary award, plus winners of Art Handlers' Awards at the National Portrait Gallery and Creative Australia…