Bill Nevins attended the Santa Fe International Literary Festival, which drew about 20,000 attendees to the Santa Fe Community Convention Center in New Mexico, from May 15–17.
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Andrew Chuter dropped in to see View from the Docks, a free exhibition of works by Naarm/Melbourne-based graphic artist Sam Wallman at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Gadigal/Sydney.
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An exhibition of recent works by Gazan artist Majed Badra and a selection of historic Palestine solidarity posters was opened at the Muloobinba/Newcastle Resistance Centre on March 28, reports Peter Boyle.
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Bill Nevins travelled to New Orleans for the Folk Alliance International Conference in January.
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At a time when political views are often pieced together by social media content, cultural meeting points are valuable spaces that must be protected from censorship, writes Mariota S.
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Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.
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Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.
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More than 100 staff working at the Art Gallery of NSW and their supporters protested NSW Labor’s plan to cut 51 jobs from the gallery workforce. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Markela Panegyres speaks to artist Elaheh Mahdavi about her and her brother Arman’s recent exhibition, The Seasick, in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, which explores the plight of Iranian refugees who arrived in Australia by boat, and those they left behind.
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Channelling her own outrage at Israel’s depravity in Gaza, poet and playwright Jepke Goudsmit adapted Billie Holiday’s famous protest song for our time.
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Words Under Occupation is a collaboration between poet, artist and performer Jepke Goudsmit and performance and video artist Markela Panegyres.
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Hysteria surrounds the dropping of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, argues Binoy Kampmark.