A picture separated into four equal sections showing headshots of First Nations musical artists.

Deadly Noize is set to showcase First Nations artists in four hours of live music at The University of Queensland.

30 July 2022
Superflex, Dive-In, 2019. Photo: Lance Gerber, courtesy of Desert X.

A 1200-kilogram bright pink installation outside The University of Queensland Art Museum forms part of an Australian-first cutting-edge exhibition that shines a spotlight on the impacts of climate change.

17 February 2022
A page showing the definition of terrorism

Terrorism, religious fundamentalism, cyber-racism, political separatism and violent extremism are among topics on the agenda at a global conference at The University of Queensland.

30 July 2018
Angelica Mesiti - The Calling (video still) 2013–2014

Unresolved cultural, environmental and psychological histories are in the spotlight in a contemporary art exhibition opening at the UQ Art Museum on 13 April.

7 April 2017
Merle Thornton and Rosemary Bognor protesting at the Regatta Hotel in 1965. Photo: The Courier-Mail

A young University of Queensland postgraduate student catapulted herself to fame half a century ago – by asking for a beer at the nearby Regatta Hotel.

19 October 2016

The University of Queensland has a list of experts available for comment on issues relating to the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

3 August 2016

University of Queensland drama students will bring a new lease of life to a classic 1940s Australian play that was last performed more than 50 years ago.

31 May 2016
Pinckney Marcius-Simons (USA, 1867-1909); watercolour illustrations painted onto the pages of an 1886 French edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, translated by Paul Meurice. 1908. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Four-hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, The University of Queensland will host a series of events in 2016 celebrating the poet’s life and times.

11 April 2016
Kangaroo horse: Aboriginal artists with a visual template for macropods drew kangaroo-like representations of their first impressions of horses. Copyright David Hancock Skyscans

A remarkable exhibition of Indigenous rock art from the Western Arnhem Land Plateau will open tomorrow at The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum.

18 February 2016

The University of Queensland’s Confucius Institute and the Queensland Police Service, Far North District, have joined forces to develop a safety brochure for tourists travelling to North Queensland.

18 January 2016
UQ’s Symphony Orchestra practising at QPAC.

Students from The University of Queensland’s School of Music will take to the stage at QPAC this weekend for a special concert featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and a performance of Peter Sculthorpe’s most famous work — Kakadu .

14 October 2015
A watercolour by artist Augustus Earle, from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection; NK12/36 - National Library of Australia.

Art historian Dr Mary Eagle will deliver the 2015 Mayne Centre Lecture this week at The University of Queensland.

24 August 2015
Dr Martin Luther King Jr ... Dr Hutch met him during a civil rights worker training program in Atlanta, Georgia.

Venturing into the “deep south” of the United States as a civil rights worker in the summer of 1965 was life-changing for Richard Hutch, then a New York college boy.

18 May 2015
The public lecture will reveal how archaeologists traced the remains of trenches and recorded artefact finds.

The 1915 Gallipoli battlefields have been a focus of intense interest for much of the past century, but official archaeological research began there only five years ago.

27 April 2015
The UQ Collection Study Room is now open.

A new custom-built study room at The University of Queensland Art Museum will allow detailed examination of UQ’s extensive art collection.

20 April 2015
William Barton has shown how traditional Aboriginal music enhances classical and other musical genres

Inspirational leaders in creative writing, music and television will work with Indigenous school students at a University of Queensland camp this month.

20 March 2015
Peter Hennessey ‘Parallel cartography (Glonass-K, RUS)’ 2014 aluminium composite panel 250 x 100 x 90 cm Collection of the artist. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Photo: Andrew Curtis

An exhibition surveying a decade of work by contemporary Australian artist Peter Hennessey will open at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 14 March.

5 March 2015
University of Queensland Press author Dr Nicholas Clements will launch his historical book The Black War in Brisbane this Thursday night (October 23).

University of Queensland Press author Dr Nicholas Clements will launch his historical book The Black War in Brisbane this Thursday night (October 23).

21 October 2014
Anthony McCall ‘Line Describing a Cone’ 1973 Installation view at the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition, ‘Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977’ 2001 16mm film. Duration 30 minutes Photo: Henry Graber © Anthony McCall

A leading international expert in film history and film studies will deliver The University of Queensland’s 2014 Daphne Mayo Lecture, ‘Cinema after Film: A Poetics of Obsolescence?’ on Wednesday 8 October.

7 October 2014
Baden Pailthorpe MQ-9 Reaper 2014 High Definition 3D animation, colour, stereo sound 4:39 min Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney.

One hundred years since the beginning of World War I and twelve-and-a-half years since September 11, the battles waged between nations and within them remind us that war is a constant companion.

29 April 2014