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Australian arts in focus

Australian arts reporting supported by the Balnaves Foundation

  • Woman reading on the beach

    Booktopia will not fill orders and may not issue refunds, say administrators

    Customers left out of pocket who placed orders have now become, in effect, unsecured creditors
  • Coldplay "Music of the Spheres" World Tour

    WA government gave $8m to Live Nation Entertainment to subsidise Coldplay concerts

    Contribution adds to $16m previously reported that was given to Live Nation or companies it owns by state and federal governments
  • Stacks of books in front of a bookshelf

    Australia’s largest online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration

    Insolvency advisers are assessing the business while options for its sale or recapitalisation are explored
  • Alexis Wright

    Miles Franklin award 2024: Alexis Wright continues dream run as shortlist announced

    Much-lauded Praiseworthy joins works by Gregory Day, André Dao, Sanya Rushdi, Jen Craig and Hossein Asgari competing for Australia’s highest literary honour
  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

    Judges praise ‘poetic, generous’ design , while awarding apartment building in Sydney’s inner-west the prize for architecture that benefits the people of NSW
  • Picasso artworks moved to women's toilets at Australian museum Mona – video

    Gallery rehouses artworks from women-only exhibition that closed after court ruled it must admit men
  • Two Picasso artworks in a female toilet at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)  in Tasmania

    Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court ruling

  • Tim Minchin appears in a video promoting the Sydney Opera House's 50th birthday

    Play it Safe: Sydney Opera House short film wins Grand Prix award at Cannes Lions festival

  • Stack of books

    Australian online seller Booktopia enters share trading halt a fortnight after major job cuts

    Bookseller tells ASX it will announce outcomes from strategic review, including ‘progress in seeking additional funding’
  • Archibald Prize 2024 finalist, Laura Jones ‘Tim Winton’, oil on linen, 198 x 152.5 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter Sitter: Tim Winton ***This information and these images are embargoed until 11.30am on 30 May 2024*** These images may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the Archibald Prize 2024 exhibition, 8 June – 8 September 2024, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and strictly in accordance with the terms of access to these images – see artgallery.nsw.gov.au/info/access-to-agnsw-media-room-tcs. Without limiting those terms, these images must not be cropped or overwritten; prior approval in writing is required for use as a cover; caption details must accompany reproductions of the images; and archiving is not permitted. Media contact: media@ag.nsw.gov.au

    Archibald prize 2024: Laura Jones wins $100,000 for portrait of Tim Winton

    Decision announced at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited to the public from Saturday
  • Composite image featuring (L-R) A portrait of Gina Rinehart donated to NGA and a portrait of Gina Rinehart by Australian artist Vincent Namatjira

    Gina Rinehart denies approaching National Portrait Gallery to offer an artwork of herself

    Hancock Prospecting says billionaire did not initially approach National Portrait Gallery offering portrait of herself, saying gallery first approached her
  • Australian businesswoman Gina Rinehart

    Gina Rinehart gifted painting of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates told

    Visitors have been flocking to the National Gallery of Australia amid the controversy over Vincent Namatjira’s painting of Rinehart, director tells hearing
  • Rhythms of heritage by Matt Adnate, painted with spray paint and synthetic polymer paint on linen. His portrait of Baker Boy has won the packing room prize as part of the 2024 Archibalds

    Archibald prize 2024: Baker Boy portrait wins packing room prize

    Yolŋu rapper says it was ‘an honour’ to be painted by Matt Adnate, who wins category judged by Art Gallery of New South Wales staff
  • a composite made of Gina Rinehart and the portrait of her that's in the NGA

    Comedian drops plan for a billboard of Gina Rinehart portrait in Times Square

    Dan Ilic wanted to project Vincent Namitjira’s work after Australia’s richest woman tried to have it removed from the National Gallery
  • Janina Harding and Dr Destiny Deacon at White Bay Power Station for ‘Lights On’ Opening Night of the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024). Photograph: Katje Ford.

    Destiny Deacon, ‘superstar’ Indigenous artist and activist, dies aged 67

  • Doug Moran national portrait prize 2022 winner Graeme Drendel with fellow artist and subject of his portrait, Lewis Miller (left)

    Doug Moran prize: Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’

  • Hands reach across a table to touch a clear screen above a stack of printed cards

    Have you ever broken a bone? The law? A heart? How an encounter with a stranger changed me

  • Ali Cobby Eckermann, Australian poet

    Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins book of the year at the NSW premier’s literary awards

  • Author Thomas Mayo holds a copy of his book, The Voice to Parliament Handbook

    Guide to Indigenous voice to parliament wins Abia book of the year

  • Punters at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said there was ‘compelling evidence’ that the government needed to intercede to stem the rising cost of overheads music festivals were facing.

    Report urges immediate assistance for Australia’s faltering live music festival sector

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