Visual Arts
Mental health support for the arts now just a phone call away
The Arts Wellbeing Collective’s latest initiative is a free telephone helpline for performing artists and arts workers that can be…
After the Goldrush – a new cultural conversation in the West
How can we craft arts policy for the states? Shelagh Magadza from the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA argues…
Mangkaja and Gorman set new benchmark in collaboration
Melbourne fashion label Gorman has collaborated with one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal Art Centres to create new designs in…
The return of Moon Mania, but are we asking the right questions?
Why Australia's space race is caught in nostalgia, when we should be asking if it’s responsible to glorify space advancement…
Holloway’s final Melbourne International Arts Festival dances with the truth
Exploring the nature of truth in an age of fake news, and with a particular focus on dance – including…
ICYMI: rounding up the week’s arts news
Next M Pavilion design unveiled, Melbourne Art Fair shifts gears again, NSW Shadow Arts Minister warns not to overlook Australian…
The Old Guard are indeed getting old
With the ageing of many senior figures in the cultural sector, Michael Reid makes a case for succession planning for…
Review: Whiteley, Opera Australia (NSW)
Opera Australia has premiered its first new work in nearly a decade, and it’s quintessentially Australian, both in subject and…
The Aboriginal art fair that takes no commission on sales
100% of art sale earnings go to exhibiting artists and art centres, making Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair one of the…
Review: Naomi Hobson, Adolescent Wonderland, Cairns Art Gallery (QLD)
A creative chameleon, Naomi Hobson is a surprising talent and her new photographic series flutters between that awkward and deadly…