Museums
Australian Museum Director to step down in 2014
Frank Howarth will leave the Museum after 10 years as Director.
AUDIO: Children revive possum skin art
Aboriginal children are reviving an ancient art of personalised possum skin cloaks, that carry identity messages.
Lumby to join the National Museums Council
The author and public commentator has been slated for a three year term at Australia’s preeminent social history museum.
New young innovative writers
The winners of Express Media's Young Writers Innovation Prize for 2013 have been announced.
Finding readers in the e-book age
Most readers are positive about e-publishing but many writers don’t know how to reach them.
Jacqueline Hick: Born Wise
A celebration of the late artist’s sympathetic approach to figurative art and Australian art history.
Sydney Modern: double the space & learn to share
A new building, more joint projects and a global presence: Director Michael Brand explains AGNSW's master plan.
Indigenous recording will prove history wrong
A dead technology is being revived in a riposte to the anthropologists who thought they had recorded the last Indigenous…
Performing arts find opportunity in museum
Museums can be both venues and inspiration for theatre but few have embraced the challenge.
Museums Australia votes for national accreditation
The board of Museums Australia has voted to move ahead with a national accreditation scheme for museums and galleries.