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Join us at the Institute of Modern Art for the launch of Town Hall no.3 and a panel discussion asking: Is Art a Job? Art historians Tara Heffernan, Courtney Pedersen, and Christian Rizzali will debate the facets and follies of this timely question.

Town Hall is a new free newspaper, published biannually by the Institute of Modern Art. It’s a unique project, gathering and profiling the brightest and best of Queensland art—art produced here, art coming here, art leaving here; art established and emerging. 

Town Hall no.3 features Queensland’s international stars, Michaela Stark and Craig & Karl, a roundtable on Australia’s Venice Biennale backflip, Tara Heffernan’s take-down of brain-rot art history, an interview with the 2025 Sydney Biennale curator Hoor Al-Qasimi, and much more.

Town Hall is free. Available only in print. It’s distributed through galleries and museums, bookshops and cinemas, restaurants and cafes, libraries and art schools, hotels and fashion outlets across Queensland. Want to be a stockist? Let us know here.