Visual Arts

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Best Newcomer Award at Sydney Comedy Festival, Adobe names ACU designer to watch, Top NT architecture award, plus more awards

Turning our phones off for creative inner health
Author Sebastian Smee, musician Holly Throsby and tech psychologist Jocelyn Brewer agree when it comes to switching off to embrace…

3 different immersive experiences
The Creative State Summit highlighted immersive works including hotels becoming sets and abandoned buildings becoming canvases.

What do you do with bad reviews? Celebrate them!
Instead of ignoring their worst reviews on TripAdvisor, Mona plastered them on billboards in order to generate further interest in…

So you want my arts job: Google Arts and Culture lead
In this new series we look at some of the best jobs in the arts and ask how people got…

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
New AD for Musica Viva, Theatre Network NSW farewells founding Director; City of Parramatta appoints Group Manager of Cultural Strategy;…

Diversify your arts: from rhetoric into action
Your organisation's strategic planning at grant application time should place diversity as a central consideration.

Australia’s Culture Building Boom: Museums
Australia’s cultural sector is under scaffolding as it faces a building boom. In this new series, we look first at…

New faces announced to shape Victoria’s arts future
Creative Industries Minister Martin Foley has announced 20 artists and sector leaders to develop the state’s new arts strategy.

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
Aboriginal art in NYC, success at Perth Festival, objections to proposed amalgamation of WA orgs, and new projects for Barangaroo,…