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Shaun Gladwell's latest exhibition sees him collaborating with some of his contemporaries in the art world and returning to an old friend, the skateboard. In both cases there is a conscious attempt to be open to forces outside of his control.

A mini-season of new plays at the North Melbourne Arts House pushes back at our long-held ways of categorising theatre in Australia. Alison Croggan reviews three of the works and examines why playing with the conventions of playwriting can be so powerful.

The Abbott government's heavily criticised arts funding policy has been shelved, but is Turnbull's offering any better? Alison Croggon breaks down what the recent changes to arts funding actually mean and why it matters to Australia's cultural life.

Every night, after the shops of Tivoli Arcade close, breakdancers gather in the Melbourne mall that's become a drawcard for b-boys and b-girls from around the world.

Music photographer Tony Mott, who has captured everyone from Johnny Rotten to Bjork, the Rolling Stones and Midnight Oil, looks back on the 1980s golden age of rock and roll photography an era he says could never be revived. Mott, one of the industry's most respected photographers, is now showcasing a lifetime of work at the State Library of New South Wales in the exhibition What a Life!

Xavier le Roy's latest project involves 18 naked performers and an intrigued audience.

More than 200 artists contribute exhibits for the TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.

Full of enjoyable quirks and classic technique, the Imperial Russian Ballet Company's Swan Lake is brash, bold and one to see, with an air of anticipation, a sense that the audience is in for a real treat, Claudia Lawson writes.

The story behind the prison hip hop video made by young Indigenous offenders in the Northern Territory - the jurisdiction with the nation's highest rate of youth detention.

The cost of tickets for literary festivals ensures they remain somewhat middle-class, civilised affairs but the programmers of the Queensland Poetry Festival are attempting to smash stereotypes with a line up that includes Clive Palmer and Quan from Regurgitator.

The UK entertainer, who rose to fame in the 1960s as a singer and went on to host a string of prime-time shows such as Blind Date, dies in Spain at the age of 72.

Highway of Lost Hearts is a four-part drama airing on Radiotonic, adapted from the play of the same name by Mary Anne Butler. It features a woman, a dog, a campervan and 4,500 kilometres of open road-but it's also about something deeper, something missing, explains the playwright.

First-time nominee Kip Williams takes out the prize for best director of a play at the Helpmann Awards.

Children from the isolated Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek are preparing to sing in an Opera Australia production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Event sponsorship offered to two high-profile Northern Territory arts and cultural festivals by oil and gas company Santos is under scrutiny from 'fracking' opponents.

The history of air is entangled with the history of life. The Airarrium is an art project that explores this relationship and offers people the chance to taste air from the past and future. Barbara Heggen reports.

You might think the flute isn't the most rock 'n' roll of instruments, but sound artist and flute devotee Jim Denley is here to change your mind. He dives into the hardcore flute tradition, from shamanistic beginnings to Jethro Tull and back.

Splendour In The Grass is upon us yet again and revellers from across Australia and abroad have descended on Byron Bay to join in its festivities.

The baroque music that filled Versailles in its prime finds new expression in the physical art form born under the Big Top as Circa joins forces with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in their latest show, writes Susie Burge.

Two of Australia's leading private arts donors have accused the Minister for the Arts, Senator George Brandis, of neglecting the arts community and politicising the funding of the sector.