Visual Art
‘People could see it from the train’: Frank Bauer’s life of light and colour

Two new exhibitions celebrate the playful but meticulously crafted work of German-born, Goodwood-based artist Frank Bauer.

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Theatre

Adelaide Cabaret Festival crowns next artistic director

Virginia Gay has handed over the reins to the festival’s next artistic director, who promises to lead a “delicious revolution” in 2026.

WMBYWalter Marsh
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A chunk of Cadbury chocolate fuels this psychic on his way to the great beyond …

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Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Breaking Up

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Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: 2025 Variety Gala

Business
Festival sector leader calls for radical transformation of ‘dehydrated’ industry

The outgoing CEO of Festival City ADL urged the state’s industry leaders to stop turning against one another and to strive for solutions in order to rebuild and transform a sector that’s letting grassroots festivals wither.

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Film & TV

Homegrown horror: Philippou brothers feel the weight of Hollywood success

From YouTube pranksters to Hollywood’s horror darlings, the twins from Pooraka are back with another made-in-Adelaide blood-and-gore hit, Bring Her Back.

PDBYPenelope Debelle
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‘Christ, you know it ain’t easy’… the revelatory cinematic ballad of John and Yoko

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Netflix greenlights locally made My Brilliant Career series

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Sunday Too Far Away at 50: how a story about Aussie shearers launched a local film industry

Visual Art

Deconstructing public art: It’s a living thing

Acclaimed poet and author John Kinsella muses about his interactions with public art, recalling his long-ago days of living rough in Perth and the ‘conversations’ between public art and those who live with it.

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‘Traces of everything around me’: Telling the writer’s story

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‘Ecological shadows’: Beached cryptid and tidal fish traps feature in ‘strangely prescient’ exhibition

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Review: REDUX – Dianne Longley and Olga Sankey

Books & Poetry
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Books & Poetry

Getting to know you: The life of a French princess revealed

Tracy Ryan’s latest novel is the second volume of a series that is drawing favourable comparison’s with Hilary Mantel’s lauded historical fiction.

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Books & Poetry

Poems: Torrens in Revelry, The Plum Tree

This week’s Poet’s Corner contributions come from Robert Dawson.

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Books & Poetry

Poems: Living With Trees, Where We Belong

This week’s Poet’s Corner comes from Kathryn von Bergen.

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Books & Poetry

‘The story is very deeply rooted in Adelaide’: author Rose Hartley’s audiobook awakening

After releasing her first novel at the start of the pandemic, Adelaide author and bookseller Rose Hartley has gone straight to audiobook for her follow-up, the locally set legal drama DisGraced.

Music

Finding her voice: Lisa Simone honours her famous mother’s ‘beautiful legacy’

Lisa Simone had a troubled relationship with her famous mother, but now the talented singer is ready to share Nina Simone’s extraordinary musical and cultural legacies with Australian audiences in July.

HMBYHeidi Maier
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Music review: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Mesmerise

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted band returns to Adelaide

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Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: Jessica Mauboy’s ‘The Story of Me’

Must Read

‘She was driven to escape’: family quest to celebrate Dangerously Modern painter

Stella Bowen is one of 50 artists celebrated in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s new exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940. 

GMBYGenevieve Meegan
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‘Epicentre of white-hot passion’: 50 years of Donald Judd’s controversial concrete

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‘Chilling effect’: Local First Nations author denied literary prize over Palestine post

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‘It just wants to be written’: Hannah Kent returns to Iceland in debut memoir

Green Room
Green Room: Tribute to Yankunytjatjara trailblazer, Tony for Snook

South Australian arts and culture news in brief.

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