Visual Arts

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
2020 Guest Conductor for MSO, The Lock-Up farewell's Director, and more job announcements

Over $20m announced to support Indigenous visual arts
The Federal Government invests in our Indigenous Arts sector, funding more than 80 art centres, art fairs and arts organisation.

Introducing the First Nations Arts Focus
This week we want to put Indigenous arts at the centre of what ArtsHub does by starting a new series…

So you want my arts job: book designer
Text Publishing’s design director WH Chong discusses the ingredients for a great book cover.

Ever wanted to write the ‘art wank’?
Jane Clark of Mona is actually paid to write 'art wank' for a living. Here she talks about writing the…

Plants and Punk disrupt Sydney’s new Metro system
Through two new C3West projects, artists Lauren Brincat and Tina Havelock Stevens rethink Sydney’s new metro system as a Plant…

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
From a spate of art fairs to early 2020 program announcements and ticket offers for upcoming Festivals, we bring you…

Arnhem Land again trumps this year’s NATSIAA, but trends are surprising
Yolngu artist Djambawa Marawili wins the $50,000 Telstra Art Award with a painting that shows the international impact of Aboriginal…

Making great propaganda art
Bad politics inspires great art. Street artist Peter Drew needed to tell the world ‘Real Australians say welcome’ and here’s…

Getting the best results out of an arts journalist
Writing about the arts is changing at an exponential rate with constant disruption in the media landscape. Gina Fairley shares…