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Debbie Cuthbertson

Debbie Cuthbertson is the Arts Editor of The Age. A multimedia journalist with extensive experience in print, online and broadcast media, she managed the ABC's national arts coverage online from 2009-11 and has held many roles with Fairfax Media.

Hugo Weaving.

Stars rail against arts 'ritual sacrifice'

As a national day of action against arts funding cuts kicks off on Friday, an all-star cast of performers, writers and artists are joining forces to mark the "bleak midwinter" for culture in Australia.

Vernon Ah Kee discusses his work Many lies (2004) with curator Stephen Gilchrist at the Harvard Art Museums show.

American Dreaming

They're abstract and minimalist, many of the works in the latest show at Harvard Art Museums, the landmark cultural institution inside of one of America's most prestigious universities.

Gilbert & George: "We have a church at one end of our street and a mosque at the other end and we are the secular ...

Seeing red: Gilbert & George still fired up

"It gives me chills," says John Kaldor, the arts patron who first brought Gilbert & George to Australia in the early 1970s, his reaction clearly visceral when he sees a film of the pair singing Underneath The Arches.