Visual Arts

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.

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…

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.

Teachers dissatisfied with Creative Australia
The Federal Government has some homework to do before the education sector embraces Creative Australia.

Object: Australian Design Centre to relocate to Barangaroo South
The 48-year-old Object: Australian Design is in discussions with Land Lease to relocate to Barangaroo South in Sydney.

Bald Archy winner lets Rinehart eat cake
Warren Lane’s portrait of mining magnate Gina Rinehart eating chocolate cake has won the 2013 Bald Archy Prize.