Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.

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News, sport, weather and… arts?

What if we had arts news like we have sports news? A new online, artist-led petition is asking for just this, and it’s already gathered thousands of signatures from high-profile artists.

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European masters: An endless affair

Major exhibitions on European masters are currently showing in multiple Australian cities. What keeps compelling us toward these artworks?

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The Absolute Intimacy of Life

For over four decades William Yang has photographed moments of love and death, crisis and identity.

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Building a Collective Memory

Constantly returning to the architecture of her childhood, Catherine O’Donnell’s remarkable drawings celebrate the everyday of suburbia.

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2021 Adelaide//International: the future as an unmade shared space

The 2021 Adelaide//International features works by James Tylor, Fayen d’Evie, Taloi Havini and Jesse Jones. Together, at the Samstag Museum of Art, they ponder what a more equitable future might hold.

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It’s in the Bag—Quite Literally

Despite the barriers to international travel, New York artist Robin Frohardt is bringing her ecological art installation—centred on plastic bags—to Adelaide.

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Flow of Language, Flow of Life

Why Joi T. Arcand wants you to learn the Cree language.

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Local talent shines in Sydney Festival 2021

This year’s Sydney Festival has defied the odds, opening with a focus on an entirely ‘Australian Made’ program.

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ACMI launches innovative new online experience

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image will reopen its renovated space in early 2021. But ACMI has already unleashed XOS, the shorthand title for its new internet “experience operating system,” which features artworks and performances curated and created specifically for online, and a new video-on-demand service for arthouse and festival films.