Arts
‘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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‘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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
‘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