Performing Arts
More grim news for Newcastle Art Gallery
A notion to rescind funding for the Newcastle Art Gallery has been passed.
Barnes & Noble battle Amazon for self-publishing spoils
Barnes & Noble have put their dukes up against Amazon by launching NOOK Press, their own self-publishing service.
New screen opportunity for live performers
SBS STUDIO TV's new variety show will recruit musicians, comedians and other performing artists.
Resignation prompts residency opportunity
After 20 years, Dave Brown is passing the torch and Patch Theatre is offering trial residencies for potential artistic directors.
What Is Street Cred anyway?
Marketing jargon has tried to hijack street cred but artists are fighting back.
Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies
Booker Prize winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, winner of two Academy Awards for her screenplays of EM Forster’s novels, died last…
Henry 4
A carefully planned and skilfully executed adaptation, not a cut-and-paste Shakespeare for the masses.
Possum cloaks reconnecting culture
A new exhibition by art and social photographer Sarah Rhodes turns a lens to an almost forgotten Indigenous cultural and…
Top music honour for national treasure Kev Carmody
Queensland singer-songwriter Kev Carmody has won the $60,000 Australia Council Don Banks Music Award.
Hot trends: Buddhas, Bacon, Barbara Cartland
Cashed-up buyers are creating a heady market for some lesser known genres including Chinese porcelain, post-war painting and even kitsch.