Tim Douglas

Tim Douglas is editor of The Weekend Australian Review. He began at The Australian in 2006, and has worked as a reporter, features writer and editor on a range of newspapers including The Scotsman, The Edinburgh Evening News and Scots national arts magazine The List.Instagram: timdouglasaus

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Lissa Twomey, appointed executive director of the Australian Ballet. Picture: Daniel Boud

Australian Ballet chief stands down

The Australian Ballet’s executive director Lissa Twomey will leave the national company after just 18 months in the role.

Tim Douglas

ReviewArts

With Dark Mofo on the blink, Rising festival steps into the breach

A life-affirming party in a cathedral, a marathon musical gymnasium and theatrical pieces of delicacy and pathos. Has Melbourne’s Rising festival got the balance right?

Tim Douglas

‘Pharaoh’Arts

NGV International exhibition Pharaoh opens on June 14. British Museum curator Dr Marie Vandenbeusch with statues of ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. Picture: David Caird

‘Absolutely incredible’: record local showing of Egyptian treasures

More than 500 artefacts from the British Museum will go on show at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday aimed at a ‘new generation’ and the curator is still making discoveries.

Tim Douglas

LANDMARK EXHIBITIONReview

Unearthed: the discoveries that turned ancient Egypt on its head

As Melbourne prepares to unveil the biggest exhibition of Egyptian antiquities seen in Australia, we dig into the priceless treasures contained the British Museum’s storage rooms. What did we find?

Tim Douglas

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Sothersby Aboriginal Art Auction at the Museum of Contempary Art. A man adjust Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere_Old Man Emu with Babies.

Royalties for offshore art resale

Australian artists whose work is resold overseas will receive royalty payments for the first time under policy amendments to be introduced by the federal government.

Tim Douglas

ExclusiveArts

David Shrigley in front of Realy Good. Picture: Tim Caraffa

NGV procures David Shrigley’s sarcastic sculpture

The National Gallery of Victoria has given a huge thumbs-up to the purchase of one of the United Kingdom’s best-known sculptures.

Tim Douglas

Taylor who?Arts

Queens of the Stone Age, Mona Lawns, Mona Foma 2024 Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy of the artist and Mona Foma

Sex, death and rock ’n’ roll

Queens of the Stone Age, Paul Kelly and Courtney Barnett kicked off the opening weekend of the Museum of Old and New Art’s annual summer arts festival. And, now in its 16th iteration, Brian Ritchie’s jovial jamboree was full a surprises.

Tim Douglas

Sliding DoorsLife

I woke up in an all-female dorm and ended up living in a castle

Being a male nanny in a 38-room chateau where a great poet once stayed began my deep dive into Czech culture and customs.

Tim Douglas

lowest possible markReview

David Shrigley, ‘Untitled’, 2023, Acrylic on paper, 76 x 56cm (29 7/8 x 22in). Copyright David Shrigley. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York

The art school ‘failure’ now giving the finger to the elite

David Shrigley scraped through art school with the lowest possible mark, yet has emerged as a practitioner way ahead of his time. It took Covid for us to see his genius.

Tim Douglas

TravelTravel

Prancing Horse luxury cars in Tasmania. FOR T+L ONLY, THE AUSTRALIAN

Chicken vs Lamborghini: who wins?

There are ruffled feathers and ultra-smooth steering on a Tasmania tour that includes luxury cars and one of the world’s best golf courses.

Tim Douglas

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