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A mural by street artist Sofles at Northshore Hamilton.

‘This is a pause, not a full stop’: Brisbane Street Art Festival cancelled

The festival makes a lasting impact on the city in the form of murals but has failed to attract sufficient government or corporate support.

  • Nick Dent

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Liu Chang, Chorus, 2021, steel, wood, electrical components.

‘A huge coup’: Aussie billionaire’s high-tech art collection coming to Queensland

As much a showcase of technological might as artistic inquiry, the world-famous collection charts the dramatic changes in Chinese society in the 21st century.

  • Nick Dent
Sets and characters from Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock will feature in the exhibition.

It’s time to light the lights: World-first Muppets exhibition coming to Brisbane

The teams who brought Kermit, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster and a host of Fraggles and goblins to the world will let GOMA visitors peek behind the scenes.

  • Nick Dent
QUT says there is “no suggestion of closing the gallery”.

Shuttered art museum to reopen after flood damage, funding cuts

The revived exhibition by artist Jemima Wyman was one of the “nice-to-do things” cancelled by QUT in a 2024 cost-cutting blitz.

  • Nick Dent
The visually stunning building was four years behind schedule.

A peek inside the long-overdue Glasshouse theatre

Four years behind schedule, QPAC’s see-through theatre is finally ready to host the public.

  • Julius Dennis
Jaws (1975)

We’re gonna need a bigger budget: Festival cancels waterside screening of Jaws

Brisbane International Film Festival may have bitten off more than it can chew with one of its showpiece events called off.

  • Nick Dent
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GR Space Brisbane follows in the footsteps of its Tokyo, Shangai and Beijing counterparts.

Tokyo, Shanghai, now Brisbane: Ricoh’s GR Space arrives in Spring Hill

It’s a gallery, art centre and cultural meeting point, in one, and it’s opened in Brisbane – not Melbourne or Sydney. Here’s why.

  • Matt Shea
Brisbane artist Ryan Forster talks to Brisbane TImes in front of his latest installation.

Binnies, tinnies and Bunnings snags: Brisbane artist’s viral ibis art trail

The latest in a flock of ibis sculptures to have popped up across the south-east has landed at a Brisbane Bunnings – thanks in part to an online push.

  • Brittney Deguara
The massive “whalebone” set for Baleen Moondjan was reassembled in Murarrie and floated downriver to Queen’s Wharf.

Why 28 gigantic whale bones are floating off Queen’s Wharf

The fibreglass bones, some nine metres in length, are the spectacular set for a Brisbane Festival show telling a Stradbroke Island story.

  • Nick Dent
Lime Cordiale are performing with by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in September.

‘Completely life changing’: Making symphonic magic with Lime Cordiale

When the rock group takes the stage at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall at the end of September, there’ll be a few more bodies – and instruments – on stage with them. 

  • Brittney Deguara