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Theatre critic Cameron Woodhead attended the full 12-hour White Night Melbourne for the fifth consecutive year. Here's what he thought.
Theatre critic Cameron Woodhead attended the full 12-hour White Night Melbourne for the fifth consecutive year. Here's what he thought.
Follow our live coverage as the fifth annual White Night Melbourne kicks off from 7pm.
White Night festivalgoers will need to rug-up but might be able to forego packing a raincoat for Melbourne's annual 12-hour event.
It's the day before one of Melbourne's biggest events of the year, but first-time artistic director of White Night David Atkins says it's all under control.
Great-grandmother Sue Morse is 73, has nine tattoos, and posed in her lingerie for a film that will show to hundreds of thousands at White Night.
Treasures from a French palace are not incredible to look at, it is the history that is extraordinary.
Two art lovers invite visitors into the inner-west terrace that houses their astounding collection, mostly bought on layby.
Two Canberra artists are going to Asia to develop their work and a Japanese artist is coming here as part of an exchange program.
White Night's music program may not boast as many recognisable names this year, but that doesn't mean the standard of talent is any lower, according to first-time artistic director David Atkins.
A prize-winning Melbourne artist is suing department store Target, claiming it used his graphic design without permission in its "Affordable Art" collection.
Arts events and news in Canberra.
It looks like it's made out of a tonne of pure steel and its hips swagger like those of a giant Elvis returned from the heavens.
The Sydney artist has turned a lifelong fascination with rubbish into revealing portraits of friends.
Artist Laura Sullivan has collected hundreds of notes she had found in various locations for the exhibition 'Found by Laura'.
On Monday, Beyonce wowed the Grammys with a performance cementing her place in popular culture as a radiant fertility goddess with the guts to confront uncomfortable issues.
In some parts of Southeast Asia, politics must be aestheticised to be practised at all.
The Gabriels, originally performed in the US as the election rolled out, was a drawcard at PIAF yet a stunning visual journey through the bush by local artists won the night.
An exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery takes a step into the unknown.
By coincidence, both the SSO and ACO opened the year exploring "art music" and "folk music", each also carrying a message about patriarchy.
Medusa will hang from the trees in Alexandra Gardens next Saturday night, casting a glow over the lawn as her five-metre long tentacles swing in the breeze.
More than 90 Victorian arts organisations have joined forces to improve the mental health of workers in the creative industries.
If there are any lessons to be learned from scrutinising the private papers of the convict son-turned cattle baron who became the country's first self-made millionaire it is that the public greatly admires humility, grit and charity in its obscenely rich.
Sydney University's controversial decision to shut down its art school at Callan Park will not happen for at least two years as students and staff continue their battle against university management.
The works of two of our artists have been shown for the first time in Berlin, in an exhibition that exposed the minuscule part we play in the booming international art trade.
Arts news in Canberra.
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