Visual Arts
Deaf community welcomed to WOMAD festival
New Zealand’s WOMAD festival is increasing its accessibility by providing sign language interpreters for the deaf at its upcoming events.
Adam Rish, artist
Rish’s business card states “Adam Rish – Misanthropist: For Disappointments phone ….”
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013 launches
Melbourne’s massive comedy festival promises lots of laughs not just in the southern city but around the country.
Warren Pickering, sculptor
Warren Pickering's artistic background began by pencil drawing as a child and studying building design and technical drawing studies in…
I’ll Be Your Mirror
Four years after the first Australian leg of All Tomorrow’s Parties, the boutique festival returned with two carefully curated days…
Kraftwerk to headline Vivid LIVE
Famous German electronic music group Kraftwerk will headline the Vivid LIVE program in Sydney this year.
Redgum to play at Gum Ball Festival 2013
Australian folk band 'Redgum' has been added to the line-up of artists for this year's Gum Ball Festival.
Jaded, pessimistic, bitchy: art museum directors face a poor public image
Art museums are suffering from poor brand imaging and a lack of social skills in directors and staff is partly…
NAPLAN is the enemy of creativity
By reducing arts education and teaching to standardised tests we are in serious danger of strangling the imagination of the…
Currency Press launches podcast
Australia’s oldest, independently owned performing arts publisher is forging into the digital age with Currency Press announcing the new podcast…