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As Rufus Wainwright concludes his Australian tour, Barnaby Smith beholds an artist at a crossroads, who may have to leave pop music behind in order to fulfil his talent.

Dance Massive began in 2009 as a biennial festival designed to showcase Australia's diverse dance culture. A collaboration between three Melbourne venues - North Melbourne Arts House, Dancehouse and the Malthouse Theatre - it's proved to be a keeper, drawing our best choreographers and enthusiastic audiences.

Captivating and poignant, Sydney Dance Company's Frame of Mind combines emotion with beautiful bodies, captivating scores and wonderful choreography, writes Claudia Lawson.

Known as a filmmaker with a singular vision, David Lynch is also a prolific visual artist who has been making complex drawings, photographs and paintings for 50 years. In an Australian first, Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art is staging a survey exhibition of Lynch's artwork. While in Brisbane the enigmatic artist spoke with ABC Arts.

Two allegedly fake Brett Whiteley paintings at the centre of fraud allegations appear to have been created after the artist died, a court has heard.

The National Gallery in Canberra is offering the chance for visitors to strip-down and experience the popular James Turrell exhibition in the nude.

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is a relatively young company, but in Adelaide they presented a program that was brilliant, overwhelming, but intensely rewarding, writes Alison Croggon.

There's a lot of Samuel Beckett around at the moment. He might currently be Australia's most performed playwright: three short plays were performed by Lisa Dwan at last month's Perth Festival, and the Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Companies are each doing their own version of Endgame. And in Adelaide, as its contribution to the Adelaide Festival, the State Theatre Company of South Australia is presenting another three short plays, as a Beckett Triptych.

Womadelaide has inspired the presentation of outdoor festivals across Australia since it was launched 23 years ago, its director Ian Scobie says.

Silvia Gallerano's performance in La Merda, at the Adelaide Festival, is more than a parade of female grotesquerie, writes Alison Croggon.

In a culture conditioned by Disney's happy endings, fairy tales are much more perilous than children are generally permitted to know. Remnants of ancient stories, they reach into the realm of the uncanny, where nightmares and marvels live in the seams of the everyday. Often in their original forms they are very cruel. The grandmother isn't rescued from the belly of the wolf. The evil queen is forced into iron boots that are heated up until her feet burn off and she dies.

There's no getting around the fact that climate change is the issue of our time. It's a problem that encompasses every facet of our lives, from our domestic habits to global politics. One of the reasons why it's difficult to process, quite apart from the difficulty of extending our individual senses of mortality to imagining our extinction as a species, is its complexity.

Since the '90s, Eric San, aka Kid Koala, has challenged audience assumptions that club culture is at its best when there's a crowd facing a DJ spinning and mixing hits out front. San is an artist who likes to defy that convention.

Puppets and their peculiar magic have been a recurring theme in this year's Perth Festival, but in Ubu and The Truth Commission puppetry becomes a vehicle to explore the human suffering many endured under Apartheid, writes Alison Croggon.

Newcastle's Tantrum Theatre has received a much needed funding boost from the NSW government.

A Canberra musician and World War I researcher's eight-year search for the identity of an Australian trumpeter in Gallipoli comes to a triumphant conclusion.

American actress and transgender activist Calpernia Addams is a woman of many talents who has fought for justice on many levels.

The National Gallery of Australia will receive a refund of more than $1.2 million for a 2,000-year-old stone statue of Buddha, after it was revealed it may have been stolen.

Relationships, like people, are complex. Are text messages, facebook posts, snapchats, or tweets less valuable than face-to-face conversation? Alison Croggon reviews Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe's Perth Festival interactive performance I Wish I Was Lonely.

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is a damning narrative of western colonialism, but it's a challenge for any director tackling this material in 2015 to keep the production from descending into Orientalist kitsch, writes Alison Croggon.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra collaborates with offbeat musicians to create a day of experimental concerts, which at times will see the orchestra's sound manipulated "like on a turntable".

Rosie Seager didn't know what a stage manager was until the Black Swan Theatre Company rolled into Carnarvon but now she plans to redirect her career to become one.

A massive light and installation display draws thousands of people to Elder Park on the first night of the Adelaide Festival.

A world-renowned graffiti artist has taken a paintbrush to Quay Lane and begun a week-long project to paint a mural for the Rockhampton community in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Marcia.