• Guide

    Five Sydney Theatre Shows to Shake Up Your May

    Autumn is the perfect time to see theatre in Sydney — so pick the shows folks are talking about.

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    Brisbane's GOMA Is Getting a Major New James Turrell Light Installation

    It will be Australia's third permanent Turrell piece, with the others at Hobart's Mona and the NGA in Canberra.

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    The Lord of the Rings Design Workshop Is Bringing an Insane Insect Exhibition to Australia

    Get up close and personal with large-scale creepy crawlies at this immersive showcase.

  • News

    Footscray Is Getting a New Eight-Screen Cinema Complex

    Coming in 2019 or 2020 from the team behind Yarraville's iconic Sun Theatre.

  • News

    Five Hugely Topical Films to See at the 2017 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

    Visit Manila's slums, follow a PNG community fighting for justice, and see how civil servants would respond to a hypothetical nuclear attack.

  • News

    The Creators of Wallace & Gromit Are Coming to Australia

    Peter Lord and David Sproxton will help launch ACMI's massive Aardman Animations exhibition with a series of talks and masterclasses.

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    Eight Bold New Melbourne Art Exhibitions That Will Make Your May

    See paintings that climb off the canvas, a survey of Christian Thompson's work and the NGV's long-awaited Van Gogh exhibition.

  • Guide

    Ten Bold New Sydney Art Exhibitions That Will Make Your May

    Looming asteroids, the end of an era for Stills Gallery and a pop-up barbershop.

  • News

    The New York Times Officially Launches Australian Coverage

    With the launch of a Sydney newsroom, the publication will extend their coverage to Australian news and issues.

  • News

    The Emerging Writers' Festival Unveils 2017 Program

    This year, the writerly festival includes a play on climate change, a masterclass on food writing and a Looking for Alibrandi-inspired formal.

  • News

    This Is Your Chance to Cruise Through Vivid Sydney on a Pirate Ship

    All in celebration of Starz's Black Sails, of course.

  • News

    Brisbane Loses Another Cinema Icon with The Schonell Ending Its Regular Film Sessions

    The St Lucia site will cease its cinema operations and become a venue for hire.

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    A Look Inside the NGV's Blockbuster Van Gogh Exhibition

    Take a walk through the NGV's huge winter exhibition, featuring over 60 works from the Dutch post-impressionist master.

  • News

    Carriageworks Announces Brand New Artist Residency Space

    Seven contemporary artists and one architecture firm will take over The Clothing Store.

  • News

    Australia's Getting a Bingo Rave

    The UK's wildly popular and highly unexpected cult event is launching in Sydney and Melbourne. Just yell "bingo" and wait for the drop.

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    'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Being Turned Into a Role-Playing Game

    Make your dream of stepping into the 2001 cult hit a reality with this crowdfunded tabletop game.

  • News

    Hot Tub Cinema Is Coming to Sydney

    The only cinema you're like to get pruny at — hopefully.

  • News

    How Modern Filmmakers Are Tackling the Complex Topic of Psychological Manipulation

    With the release of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome, we look at how victims and perpetrators of psychological abuse are portrayed in modern film.

  • News

    Five Must-See Films at the 2017 Spanish Film Festival

    Our picks from the 39 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to a sumptuous period piece and a classic cat-and-mouse thriller.

  • News

    Blues, Roots and Langos: A Journey Through Bluesfest's 2017 Food Lineup

    From Yemeni bread to vegan pasta and those organic doughnuts — here's what we ate at Bluesfest this year.

  • News

    Five Films Worth Making the Drive to the Gold Coast Film Festival to See

    Road trip to see Australia's answer to 24, Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson, and a black-and-white boxing flick that's also a love story.

  • News

    American Essentials Film Festival Reveals Indie-Focused 2017 Program

    Two Greta Gerwig films, Australia's own Bond and Ewan McGregor jumping behind the camera rank among the second-year festival's 31 titles.

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    This Immersive London Exhibition Will Put You Inside an Episode of 'Black Mirror'

    Relive the anthology series' "Fifty Million Merits" episode as part of the Barbican's three-month science-fiction showcase.

  • News

    NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Installed a Surreal Rooftop Dinner Party

    Characters and objects from the Met's collection have been digitally scanned, cast as sculptures and spread underneath the Manhattan skyline.

  • News

    Brisbane Has a New Live Music Venue, The Flamin' Galah

    Alf Stewart would approve of this Upper Roma Street newcomer.

  • Guide

    The Best Things to Do Around Brisbane This Long Weekend

    From Easter egg hunts around bars to 18-hour pinball tournaments and long lazy Easter brunches.

  • News

    A Huge Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Is Coming to Australia

    The legendary Japanese director's work will screen in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.

  • News

    The Museum of Everything Is Coming to Australia

    The world's first dedicated showcase of ordinary art is heading to MONA for its first Australian visit.

  • News

    Sydney Tower Eye Announces Massive Vivid Live Music Lineup

    Get down to some of Sydney's biggest DJs at the city's highest vantage point

  • News

    Dark Mofo Has Announced Its Spectacular Full 2017 Lineup

    Large-scale lasers, an orchestra mixed with around 500 litres of blood, and a 200-kilometre pilgrimage to six different churches are all on the bill.

  • News

    A Handy Guide to This Year's Splendour Sideshows

    Not heading to Splendour? Just bring the festival to you.

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    Sydney's Iconic The Ritz Cinema Is 80, So We're Giving Away Free Movie Tickets

    It's the Randwick cinema's birthday and what better way to toast than with some Old Hollywood movies on the big screen.

  • News

    Ai Weiwei Leads First Artist Lineup for the Biennale of Sydney 2018

    The controversial Chinese artist is one of 21 artists announced for the biannual citywide exhibition today.

  • News

    Redfern's 107 Projects to Run Green Square's Huge New Creative Hub

    The centre will feature artist studios, creative offices, exhibition spaces, workshop spaces and indoor/outdoor areas.

  • News

    Australia's Human Rights Film Festival Announces 2017 Program

    Tired of the same old blockbuster formula? See a film that cuts through the noise.

  • News

    Academy Award-Winning Director Oliver Stone Is Coming to Australia

    The influential, polarising American filmmaker joins both the Vivid Ideas and Semi Permanent lineups in Sydney.

  • News

    Sydney Film Festival Reveals First Part of Its Huge 2017 Program

    Coming to Sydney cinemas: a Rooney Mara-starring ghost story, a race relations doco narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, a follow-up to Jennifer Peedom's Sherpa.

  • Guide

    Ten Brisbane Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your April

    Frolic through a candy-coloured land and slide from the top floor of GOMA to the bottom before this exhibition leaves.

  • Guide

    Ten New Melbourne Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your April

    Experience dark and lurid dreamlike paintings, the neon lights of Beijing and an immersive maze of mirrors.

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    Ten New Sydney Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your April

    Sartorial splendour in Sierra Leone, a six-hour endurance dance of 'Nutbush City Limits' and a Xanadu roller-skating karaoke session in the Firstdraft carpark.

  • Guide

    The Ten Best Sydney Theatre Shows to See This April

    Autumn is the perfect time to see theatre in Sydney. But laidback shows these are not.

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