The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is facing ‘huge financial challenges’ as the flagship event’s director says participating comedians are expected to be ‘respectful and kind’.
In the age of Trump, social media and podcasts, right-leaning comedians are finding mass audiences in the US. Interestingly, this shift has yet to take root in Australia.
Monash University’s Museum of Art has given the go-ahead to a postponed show featuring cancelled artist Khaled Sabsabi.
Grammy Award-winning soprano Sumi Jo is performing near the remote towns of Winton and Longreach this week.
Opera superstar Sumi Jo reflects on the highs and lows of her globetrotting career as she heads to Queensland’s outback.
Julie Fragar has won the $100,000 Archibald Prize, the country’s most coveted – often controversial – portraiture award, with her painting of friend and fellow artist Justene Williams.
Pro-Palestinian activist artist Abdul Abdullah has taken out the Art Gallery of NSW’s 2025 Packing Room Prize, a curtain-raiser to the $100,000 Archibald Prize, the country’s most celebrated portrait prize.
A new documentary draws on previously unreleased archival material to challenge Leni Riefenstahl’s claims she knew nothing about the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities.
Brisbane Festival artistic director Louise Bezzina will step down from the nation’s largest arts festival following ‘remarkable’ growth period.
Instability has plagued the flagship company since the resignation of ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Li Cunxin in 2023.
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