Epic battle over Epic Country as NGA exhibition opens
As the exhibition at the centre of "white hands on black art" allegations opens, the damage wrought on an Aboriginal-run art collective becomes clear.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
The Ngura Pulka exhibition is finally opening at the National Gallery of Australia, following a three-year delay because of allegations of interference.
An uncomfortable changing of the guard has taken place at Art Song Canberra, with chair Ditta Zizi stepping down and former Canberra International Music Festival director Roland Peelman voted in as president, reports HELEN MUSA.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews John Brack x Noel McKenna: A face in the mirror, at the National Portrait Gallery.
Craft
Terrific chance to see top pottery from the ’90s
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews end to end – Collected Works: from the Australian Pottery Collection, Bemboka, which is showing at the Watson Arts Centre.
Arts & Entertainment
Cult-classic Malcolm movie celebrates 40 Years
Here's Artsweek – arts editor HELEN MUSA's weekly look at what's on where and when.
Theatre
The intricate grace and grit of an emotional play
There’s a distinct feeling of homecoming surrounding the production of Nick Payne’s 2012 play Constellations, to be staged by Kelly Somes in mid-April, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reflects on the thumping success that was the weekend's National Folk Festival.
There is no more significant work of theatre for 2026 than Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, director Joe Woodward tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA meets British folk singer Martyn Wyndham-Read, who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award the National Folk Festival.
The question of whether audiobooks count as reading is about to get more complicated thanks to a feature from a major tech firm.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Three middle-aged adults looking for an exciting new spark in an otherwise plain and tedious American existence are the characters in a new series that's turning heads, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
HELEN MUSA reports on a National Library exhibition that showcases the remarkable, decades-long efforts of the NT's Papunya community to record, preserve and sustain its language and culture.
"This quality, high-energy, fun and funny production of boy-band bangers and girl power was well deserving of the rowdy wolf whistles and enthusiastic standing ovation it received." SAMARA PURNELL's been to see & Juliet.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews the opening concert of the 60th National Folk Festival at Exhibition Park.
Female writers are currently dominating the Australian crime fiction scene, with more women writing crime, psychological thrillers, and domestic noir than men, writes reviewer ANNA CREER.
"Oedipus the King teeters between the realistic and the formal, or ritualistic, and it is here that Michael Smith as director may have gone a step too far," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
The Canberra Art Fair has been postponed from May to October, with organisers citing ongoing global uncertainty and public unease, reports HELEN MUSA.
