It’s been a month of memorable experiences for Masters student Pippa Milne, as the inaugural intern of a new partnership program between the Australia Council for the Arts and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. By Kate O’Hara.

A recently published book from Melbourne University Publishing explores the beauty and complexity of Indigenous culture in northern Australia’s Tiwi Islands. By Katherine Smith.

Zoe Nikakis looks at planned Open Day activities at the Victorian College of the Arts, where it’s business as usual for dancers, actors, musicans, filmmakers and visual artists. 

Interpretation of the nude in art, from romanticism to the present day, has inspired a new body of work by Philip Brophy, titled Colour Me Dead, on show at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne Potter until 18 September. By Katrina Raymond.

Reverie describes an “uncluttered imagination that is receptive to floating thoughts”, according to Emma Last, curator of a new exhibition by that name on show at the Dax Centre at the University of Melbourne. By Katherine Smith.

Macgeorge Fellow Professor Mary Luckhurst from York University talks to Alix Bromley about how she believes a physical approach to staging text, devised by Melbourne theatre-maker Tanya Gerstle, is going to revolutionise actor training in the United Kingdom.