Arts
Brisbane International Film Festival cancelled for 2026, ‘new operating model’ sought
Screen Queensland has revealed BIFF will be “paused” and its executive director has departed.
- Nick Dent
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‘A watershed moment’: Major Brisbane art exhibition opens at prestigious London museum
QAGOMA has exported a collection of works to one of the most important galleries in Europe – the Victoria & Albert Museum.
- Nick Dent
Molly Johnson’s legend lives on in opera’s world premiere at Glasshouse Theatre
It has already triumphed as a play, a book and a movie, but Leah Purcell’s outback tragedy may have found its ideal medium.
- Nick Dent
Unearthing the mystery of the Moreton Bay mermaid
Quandamooka artist and fashion designer Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is on the trail of Warrajamba, and enlisting the help of Brisbane locals.
- Nick Dent
‘From the river to the sea’, and into police sights, for Brisbane artists
High-profile artist Nordacious has been told to pull items from his online store under controversial new Queensland laws, as officers eye a mural in the capital.
- Matt Dennien
‘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
‘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