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This week's arts news and trending topics
This week's top arts news stories and most read reviews.
![Woman in jeans and red jumper reading a book inside with warm drink.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/matias-north-Y74XgxhQaGE-unsplash.jpg?w=310)
Winter warmers: 18 new art books to curl up with
Warm up with these new art publications hot off the press.
![Ability Fest. Five men in black T shirts are in front of festival crowd, one on the right is in a wheelchair, smiling and holding a microphone.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ability-Fest_463-e1720066886832.jpg?w=310)
Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland
The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.
![Melt 2024 first program reveal – Club Broadway: A Wicked Halloween Ball. Photo: Supplied. A digitally rendered image featuring a witch in black at the centre, floating into an eerie green background surrounded by bats and phantoms.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/club-broadway-e1719987368287.webp?w=310)
Melt gets heated for Halloween with wicked drag
Brisbane’s 2024 Melt festival is gearing up with further program announcements including a ‘Wicked’-inspired Halloween ball.
![A geo-locator for live music gigs. Photo: Tnarg, Pexels. A person wearing headphones walking on the street with his phone out, seemingly in search of something.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/pexels-tnarg-4206427-e1719978680741.jpg?w=310)
New one-stop platform to help locate live gigs anytime
Live Music Locator is a free to use platform that aims to tackle discoverability issues for small to medium music…
![Ben Graetz as Miss Ellaneous. Photo: Mia Mala McDonald for Queering the Collection. A big drag personality with pink curly hair, bold makeup, long black gloves and a collar made out of pearls.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ben_Graetz_as_Miss_Ellaneous_image_by_Mia_Mala_McDonald-e1719970795549.jpg?w=310)
Queering the Collection through pride and prejudice
A new audio series produced by Arts Centre Melbourne features queer artistic icons alongside archival items significant to the LGBTQIA+…
![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!
![Textile artist Danny Amazonas standing in front of his large-scale quilt work. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. A middle-aged Asian man wearing glasses with yellow lenses and a gray t-shirt stnading in front of a large quilt work depicting a seaturtle surrounded by fish. The piece is vibrant and colourful.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/22791681_1604974169524137_1441557456258882473_o-e1719882791692.jpg?w=310)
Master quilter brings awareness to endangered species
The Taiwanese artist and quilter, Danny Amazonas, will make a stop in Australia at the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair.
![Artists dressed in pink and purple promote their show on a grey street at Edinburgh Fringe.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/street-performers-870126_1920.jpg?w=310)
Fringe festival furore as state’s US$32 million arts budget vetoed
Fringe festivals have reacted with shock to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ vetoing all arts funding on the basis that some…
![A stack of six books. The tiles on their spines can be seen: 'Only Sound Remains', 'Hospital', 'Wall', 'Praiseworthy' and 'Anam.'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/MF.jpg?w=310)
Miles Franklin shortlist 2024
Small press publishers dominate the shortlist at this year's Miles Franklin Award.