Jackson Pollock's Blue poles will show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from April to September 2027, its first loan to an Australian venue since 2003, while the National Gallery closes wings for repairs.
Thirty-three NSW live music venues will share $3.8 million for soundproofing, lighting and staging, after a run of Sydney closures.
Peking Duk, Kate Miller-Heidke, King Gizzard and five more debut on the ARIA Australian albums chart this week. Only Peking Duk makes the main top ten.
Screen Australia's Screen Currency 2026 has 84 per cent calling local content important and 36 per cent able to find it easily.
Deborah Mailman is the first Indigenous performer inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame. Robert Irwin hosted at 22, the youngest to take the job.
Paramount has licensed the six-part Stan Original into 100 territories, including Channel 4, HBO Asia and JioHotstar, before its overseas launch.
Made For This entered the ARIA Australian artist albums chart at No.1 and the all comers chart at No.6, one of five new Australian records in the top six.
The EBU will strip hosting rights from a winning broadcaster whose country is affected by armed conflict, three months after Israel finished second in Vienna.
Adrian Russell Wills' Tina Arena: Unravel Me has its world premiere at The Astor on Wednesday, a fortnight before a national cinema release on 27 August.
Suzi Quatro will play six headline shows with Baby Animals in November and December, plus four Red Hot Summer dates. Tickets go on sale Wednesday.
The band played the Concert Hall on Saturday night, their first Australian show in almost five years. A second sold-out date follows on Monday.
The Sydney trio's self-titled record landed on Friday through Sony, with three east coast shows booked across late November and December.
The Melbourne International Film Festival opens Thursday with the Australian premiere of Wicker, leading a program of more than 300 works over 18 days.
Soft Pop entered the ARIA Albums Chart at No.2 behind Charli XCX, the first Amy Shark record not to debut at the top in four releases.
Ten first and second features contend for the $140,000 Bright Horizons Award. MIFF runs 6 to 23 August, with the awards presented on 22 August.
Indie-Con Australia opens in Adelaide on Wednesday ahead of the 20th AIR Awards, with Ninajirachi leading nominations across 23 categories.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey took $11.45 million at the Australian box office in its second weekend, lifting its local total to $29.9 million.
Holly Hebe's EP Mood Ring and Swapmeet's debut album Mount Zero, both released on 17 July, entered the ARIA Australian artist albums chart at one and two.
Perth duo Old Mervs announced a nine-date Australia and New Zealand tour and a new album, Carparks, out in October, with the artist presale for tickets opening on Thursday.
The Temper Trap's Sungazer, the Melbourne band's first album in a decade, has debuted at number one on the ARIA Australian albums chart and number nine overall.
The actor behind Neighbours patriarch Doug Willis died peacefully in Melbourne on Saturday night, aged 90, his sons Jason and Paul announced.
The Odyssey opened to an estimated US$264.1 million worldwide, Christopher Nolan's biggest launch, with Australia's US$9.3 million his fourth-best market.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey took US$3.7 million in Australia in two days, the year's biggest opening day, as its global launch neared US$40 million.
Nolan's Homer epic opened in Australia with the Southern Hemisphere's only IMAX 70mm run selling 17,000 tickets in a day and a 98 per cent RT debut.
APRA AMCOS puts unlicensed AI training at $500m over four years for local music creators as the industry backs the PM's 'anything less is theft' line.
An anonymous phone bidder paid US$50.1 million for the 67-million-year-old fossil, an auction record for a dinosaur, and palaeontologists want it in a museum.
The Jurassic Park and My Brilliant Career actor died in Sydney surrounded by family, less than three months after announcing he was cancer-free.
The global recorded music industry has agreed a voluntary standard marking tracks as AI-Generated or AI-Assisted, and ARIA has welcomed it. The test case is already on Australian radio, where a rework of Madonna's Like A Prayer with no credited vocalist sits at number two.
Muse's "The Wow! Signal" entered the ARIA albums chart at number two this week, behind Olivia Rodrigo's "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love," which held number one for a third straight week on the chart dated 6 July 2026. Muse's tenth studio album has also topped the UK chart and reached number one in several other countries since its 26 June release.
The Federal Court dismissed every claim Jayson Gillham brought against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The case turned on a protection gap between employed and contracted artists.
Justin Bieber will join Madonna, Shakira and BTS for the first half-time show at a men's World Cup final, an 11-minute set at MetLife Stadium on July 19.
Australian cinemas cleared $100 million for a third straight month in June, the first such run on record, while Pixar's Toy Story 5 held the national number one for a third weekend.
Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj was pulled from ZEE5 in India two days after its uncut premiere. The film, and its censorship fight, keep streaming everywhere else.
Three days after Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden, guests have begun posting about the night, while the couple themselves have released no photos and no statement.
Adelaide's Harvest Rock will not be held in 2026, with promoter Secret Sounds calling it a 'fallow year' (the festival's second skipped year in three).
Halfway through 2026, Tame Impala's 'Dracula' is the only Australian single to reach the ARIA top 10, and no local act has topped the singles chart all year. Just four Australian songs have entered the top 40, according to a mid-year review by music site Noise11.
Fifteen years after it launched, Tinder has produced weddings, wasted years, and everything in between. The app did not change whether people find love. It changed what the search costs them.
Spin Off Hostel on Fitzgerald Street in West Perth holds a 9.4 on Booking.com and earns the kind of reviews most hostels never see. It was built for the guest, not the operator.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev accepted the Sydney Film Prize in person for Minotaur at the 73rd Sydney Film Festival, which screened 248 films from 81 countries and recorded one of the strongest international lineups in its history, including 19 films direct from Cannes.
RISING 2026 ran from May 27 to June 8, transforming Melbourne landmark venues across 13 nights with 100-plus events, seven world premieres, and a program that included the reopening of the Flinders Street Ballroom as a public dance venue for the first time in years.
The 2026 Australian Musical Theatre Festival ran May 20 to 24 at Launceston's recently refurbished Albert Hall, with a program spanning a new work by composer Carmel Dean, a Sondheim centrepiece, and an intimate evening tracing the career of director Delia Hannah.
