Hannah Story is a writer for ABC Arts, working on Gadigal land.
Artist Justene Williams didn't want her new exhibition in Brisbane, Once We Were Mudskippers, to be a survey or retrospective. Instead, it's brimming with new work in conversation with old.
Bernice Barry felt different growing up. She gifted that difficult experience to the protagonist of her book, The Names of a Hare, which just won the ARA Historical Novel Prize.
Plus, a heartbreaking story of charity betrayal from the UK and an Australian horror-comedy about killer gnomes hits streaming this month.
As creative and technical arts degrees and school subjects dwindle around the country, Queensland Theatre Company is thinking deeply about how to support the local ecosystem.
A new Sidney Nolan exhibition has opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, featuring all 27 paintings in his iconic Ned Kelly series.
With her Troubles-set debut Never Closer and now an adaptation of A Room with a View, Grace Chapple is establishing herself as an exciting new voice in Australian theatre.
Writer and actor Eddie Perfect's next show is a black comedy based on Molière's Tartuffe that replaces the 17th-century play's quasi-religious charlatan with an AI hairdressing robot.
In the new revenge thriller series Kill Jackie, Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones plays drug smuggler-turned-art dealer Jackie Price, who decides to hunt the seven assassins on her tail.
Know your David Williamson from your Ray Lawler? Your Fangirls from your Trophy Boys? Test your knowledge with our Australian theatre quiz.
Clarice Beckett's paintings languished in a farm shed for decades before she was recognised by the Australian art establishment. Rachel Griffiths will play her in a new show.
Working in hospitality, Barber longed to perform on the Sydney Theatre Company stage. Next year, she will star in its production of The Book of Liz by Amy and David Sedaris.
Twenty-five years on and the hundreds of asylum seekers saved from drowning by the Tampa freighter still linger in the Australian memory.
Kate Wild wasn't sure if she should write about the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker and the ensuing murder trial. Her book just won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
The Australian actor has spent the year wrapping up the show he co-created, Colin from Accounts, and starring in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Now, he leads a local thriller.
A fire wiped out Belvoir St Theatre's warehouse and workshop in June. Now the company is in the rebuild phase as it launches its 2027 season.
The artist was best known for her dot-covered paintings and pumpkin motifs.
The late Margaret Olley has been celebrated as an artist, philanthropist and subject of two Archibald-winning portraits. A new exhibition takes the artist back to her roots.
Chenturan Aran's acerbic first play, Cut Chilli, was one of the most hyped shows in Sydney in 2024. It just made its debut in Melbourne.
Take a look back on the blog for all the action of the 66th annual Logie Awards.
Deborah Mailman, star of Total Control and The Secret Life of Us, is also the sixth woman to enter the Logie Awards Hall of Fame.
Frontline and Jack Irish star Alison Whyte returns to the role of Linda Loman, opposite Anthony LaPaglia as her husband, Willy, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Ryan Presley has won the top prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards for an oil painting riffing on Renaissance art.
Topic: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Michael Zavros has won the Archibald Prize People's Choice Award for a portrait of Jewish advocate Alex Ryvchin.
An Archibald winner, an intimate portrait of a marriage and a suburban backyard are among the Brett Whiteley artworks on display at his renovated studio.
After the 2026 edition was subjected to political, community and commercial pressures, the Biennale of Sydney has announced a new artistic director: Singaporean curator Low Kee Hong.
