The Brisbane Festival program for 2026
The Brisbane Festival 2026 program features an expansive celebration of art and community as imagined by new Artistic Director Ebony Bott.
Tickets are on sale for
Read more9 June 2026Arts
International film festival ‘paused’ for 2026
The Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) will be “paused” in 2026 and redesigned under a different operating model.
Screen Queensland said this week that the
Read more9 June 2026
Paul McCartney back in the Australian top 10
Prolific former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane has debuted on the Australian ARIA charts at number 5.
This marks 83-year-old Sir Paul’s 18th
Read more8 June 2026
Half of Australia’s bookstores have closed in a decade
By Katherine Day, Bec Kavanagh and Matthew Holden
In the past year alone, at least 13 independent bookshops have closed in Australia.
Some have operated for decades
Read more8 June 2026
Melbourne’s curious obsession with black clothing
By Rachel Lamarche-Beauchesne and Jye Marshall
Anna Wintour, former editor in chief of Vogue, once said she would “never ever wear head-to-toe black”. It’s not a
Read more1 June 2026
A century-old piano mystery has finally been solved
A long-standing debate in music circles on the impact of touch on a piano’s sound appears to have been settled.
According to the Japan-based NeuroPiano Institute,
Read more29 May 2026
Brisbane artist Justene Williams to exhibit at QAGOMA
Three decades of work from Brisbane installation artist Justene Williams will be on display at the Queensland Art Gallery in a new exhibition opening on October 3,
Read more28 May 2026
Resurgent Pokémon comes with profits and crime
By Tets Kimura
In 1973, Japanese food company Calbee started attaching free collectable baseball player cards to its potato chip packets (and continues to do so
Read more26 May 2026
Drake scores three top 10 albums in the same week
Canadian artist Drake has become the first artist to have three new top 10 albums in the Australian charts in the same week.
Iceman debuted at number one, Maid Of Honour
Read more26 May 2026
Beetlejuice the Musical on sale for Brisbane 2026 season
Beetlejuice the Musical returns to Brisbane in 2026, with tickets still available for the show which runs from June 7 to August 2 at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC.
Based on
Read more25 May 2026