‘We don’t do that’: Why Creative Australia didn’t check artist’s past work
The federal arts funding agency says there is a possibility the Australian Pavilion will be dark for the first time since ...
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Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale
Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might ...
How Creative Australia's perplexing backflip on Khaled Sabsabi defines our current moment of turmoil
What happened? Future historians might puzzle over this seismic shift in sentiment at the top of Australia's foremost public ...
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Cultural McCarthyism in Australia: The new battleground for artistic freedom
The war in Gaza has, since October 2013, become a crucible for Australia's cultural sector, exposing fault lines in ...
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Artist Archie Moore ‘Appalled’ by Australia’s Decision to Drop Khaled Sabsabi From the 2026 Venice Biennale
Australia has dropped its artist for the next Venice Biennale in 2026 after critics dug up some of his controversial early ...
Major gallery says Venice row endangers Australia’s global reputation
Creative Australia’s board is looking increasingly isolated as opponents line up to criticise its dropping of its Venice ...
Creative Australia ditches Venice Biennale duo over Hezbollah chief image
Curator Michael Dagostino and artist Khaled Sabsabi had been selected to show at the 2026 event, regarded as contemporary art ...
‘A shameful call by Creative Australia’: the arts community reacts to Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the Venice Biennale
Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic ...
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String of resignations after Khaled Sabsabi withdrawn from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale
The head of Creative Australia’s visual arts department and the board member and artist Lindy Lee among those who have ...
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More Australian art world figures condemn decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s Venice Biennale project
Last year’s Golden Lion winner Archie Moore and the National Association for the Visual Arts are among those to speak out in ...
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Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry
This month, a strong run of well-received exhibitions and retrospectives over the past decade culminated in the announcement by Australia’s federal arts agency Creative Australia (CA ...
A creative flip-flop over terrorist imagery and arts grants
What faith would anyone hold in the leadership of Creative Australia, the taxpayer-funded arts council, when its chair, ...