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Australia's largest and most trusted arts network. Providing the latest word on the arts sector.
Administered by The Wheeler Centre on behalf of the Victorian Government, the VPLAs’ $292,000 prize pool celebrates excellence in Australian literature across seven main categories, with an additional prize dedicated to an Unpublished Manuscript.

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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pantone's newly announced 'trending colour for 2026' is as bland as you can get and emblematic of our increasingly grey world.

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December 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The 2025 Fremantle Biennale brought to life over 25 ambitious, site-responsive artworks. Here are the five that stood out from the pack.

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December 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Melbourne’s winter arts festival RISING 2026 is set for a shake up with the announcement of legendary The Royal Family Dance Crew.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Dr Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM and Tony Albert join the French Order of Knighthood.

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December 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Bookmark this one-stop list of visual arts programs and key exhibitions fro 2026: we'll keep you updated as news breaks.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Out of the history books and into our homes, Melbourne Museum has announced an epic exhibition on the Roman Empire, to open April 2026.
#RomeEmpirePowerPeople #MelbourneMuseum

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December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
For arts organisations and artists, media interviews can be a steep learning curve. This media veteran's guide unpacks everything you need to know.

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December 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
After a prolonged closure for review, Sturt Gallery & Studios is geared to reopen in 2026 as a new entity.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A social media post has erupted in critical dialogue over waste in exhibition making, ahead of Olafur Eliasson’s major exhibition with Queensland Art Gallery.

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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
How a moment of frustration led to one of Australia’s most trusted and long-running arts publications.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Amyl and The Sniffers won four awards from the band's six nominations at last night's ARIA Awards in Sydney.

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November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The redevelopment of the original 1976 civic centre was carried out while staff kept working in the building and exhibitions and productions continued unabated.

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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Billed as an important new initiative to boost arts philanthropy, Creative Australia’s inaugural AusArt Day achieved mixed results.

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November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Psychotherapist Andrew Sloan's new book – Why Things Feel F*cked – aims for modern solutions to our age-old sense of doom.

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November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Affirming the importance of university art galleries, MUMA announces a timely 2026 program that focuses on spiritualism and ancestral traditions as an antidote to a spiralling world.

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November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Amyl and The Sniffers will play a free live gig in Melbourne this Friday, 14 November.

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November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
For the past 30 years, Artback NT has been bringing Top End artists to the nation, and the world.

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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
All four of our major fringe festivals continue to draw strong crowds, but one looks likely to be on the cusp of bigger things.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
La Mama reopens after a year of reflection and reconnection, doubling down on ‘complete artistic freedom’ and committing to staging only new Australian work.

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November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Despite outstanding results, a unique New South Wales program supporting creative businesses and freelancers is being wound up. ArtsHub speaks to the director of the Business Connect program about its impact and legacy.

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November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Sydney Conservatorium to open new state-of-the-art learning space in Parramatta in 2026.

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November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Arguably, one of Australia’s most loved winter festivals, Dark MoFo returns in 2026, with Night Mass tickets on sale this week.

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November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The CEO of the Australian Publishers Association welcomes the recent TDM ruling, which upholds authors' copyright in the training of AI language models, but argues there is still significant work ahead for the industry.

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November 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New festival Kindred People aspires to ‘energetically encourage' the sharing of Indigenous knowledges.

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October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM