"I'm against cancel culture," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday night at the National Gallery of Australia in one of the more unusual gallery speeches in a while, as he unveiled Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao.
A veteran Canberra poet and a rising novelist were among the big winners at the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, hosted at Canberra Contemporary Art Space on the lakeside, by Marion Ink on Thursday.
"This is true horror. This does something on stage which is normally only achieved in movies." John Waters tells arts editor HELEN MUSA of the play The Woman in Black that's coming to Canberra soon.
Twenty-eight projects have been recognised in the 2024 ACT Architecture Awards with categories ranging from residential new homes and renovations to public works and interiors.
An unusual self portrait on washcloth has won the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize Art Handlers’ award of $2000 at the National Portrait Gallery, reports HELEN MUSA.
"It's almost impossible to believe it, but the upcoming exhibition, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, is the first exhibition in this country dedicated to the famous French post-impressionist artist," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.