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Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

Artist tests freedom of speech in Hong Kong with daring billboard work

A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.

  • Elizabeth Flux

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Some of the fun activities in the April school holiday guide for Sydney.

Things to do this school holidays in Sydney

From the visual arts to a beloved musical, live music and comedy, here’s how to keep the kids busy these school holidays.

  • Nicole Elphick
A Quiet Language by Australian Dance Theatre

The man next to me didn’t even applaud. I couldn’t recommend this show more highly

It wouldn’t be a good festival if every show were easy to like or a sure thing – a program packed with tepid crowd pleasers serves no-one. 

  • Elizabeth Flux

Art Gallery of NSW names first female director in 154 years

Director Michael Brand will depart the gallery next Friday, in a quick handover following a global search for his successor.

  • Linda Morris
Street art in Frankston.

‘Highest density of quality artworks I’ve ever seen’: Welcome to Frankston

From hidden laneways to towering walls, the suburb has become a living canvas. It will host a free street party this weekend.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Artist Patricia Piccinini in her Melbourne studio.

‘Brutally violent othering’: How this artist’s human-animal hybrids are bringing us closer to nature

At a tumultuous moment in Australian arts, Patricia Piccinini is stepping into a new role and tackling difficult topics.

  • Elizabeth Flux
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Artist Khaled Sabsabi; and Creative Australia chair Robert Morgan and Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette.

‘Yet to receive a cent’: Creative Australia hasn’t paid out sacked Venice artist

Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino are entitled to 90 per cent of their fees but are yet to “receive a cent”.

  • Linda Morris
Artist Khaled Sabsabi at the Campbelltown Art Centre.

‘We don’t do that’: Why Creative Australia didn’t check artist’s past work

The federal arts funding agency says there is a possibility the Australian Pavilion will be dark for the first time since 1954.

  • Linda Morris
Performance artist Casey Jenkins.

Like Sabsabi, my art was cancelled. Instead of outrage, there was barely a whimper

Creative Australia admitted just over a year ago, via public statement on their website, to cancelling and maligning another artist with no reasonable cause. That artist was me.

  • Casey Jenkins
Artists (from top left) Shaun Gladwell, Patricia Piccinini, Marco Fusinato, (bottom left) Fiona Hall, Mike Parr and Angelica Mesiti are among the artists supporting Khaled Sabsabi.

‘Hung out to dry’: Australia’s Venice artists show unprecedented support for sacked colleague

Twenty-three artists who have represented Australia at the Venice Biennale have backed sacked artist Khaled Sabsabi amid warnings Venice 2026 is in grave doubt.

  • Linda Morris

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