Visual Arts

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
From an online disability art portal, to a new ACMI x RMIT partnership, Womadelaide's 2020 program, DESIGN Canberra highlights and…

The Yin and Yang of Aboriginal Art
What a 60,000 year old concept on kinship is teaching contemporary art.

On the Move: Latest sector appointments and departures
Dancehouse AD to move on in April, NIDA appoints new CEO, latest Board appointments at Diversity Arts Australia, and more.

Keeping fresh and focussed in a long term role (from our archives)
It's the perennial question: how do you stay motivated in a job that you love after years? This classic article…

Applause: Latest awards and funding announced
Women in Music Awards, winner of Fauvette Loureiro Scholarship, Nonfiction Young Writers shortlisted and more accolades this week.

Chinese art’s role in the hardening of soft diplomacy
China’s influence in the arts has long been tied to its political goals. Alison Carroll looks at how it has…

Australia Council responds to Major Performing Arts Framework changes
With the announcement last week of changes to the MPAF, Australia Council's CEO Adrian Collette responds congratulating the ministers involved.

An Idea Needing to Be Made, Heide Museum of Modern Art (VIC)
Heide brings together 12 ceramic artists and an architectural group to ponder the notion of the vessel.

Judith Neilson versus John Kaldor
Two incredible philanthropists are currently celebrating anniversaries of their collections and patronage – we take a look at their legacy…

Parity in new 2020 Carriageworks commission
In his first program at Carriageworks, new CEO Blair French puts local Australian artists at the core with a focus…