Visual Arts

Quick courses to land a job
In a pickle and need some cash? We’ve rounded up seven super-short courses you can do to get a job,…

The Poetry of the Present
Read the full 2017 Peggy Glanville Hicks address on how musicians help us find new meaning in our present.

Are you condescending to your audience?
The fashion for museum 'didactics', turns off art audiences who feel its patronising and moralistic undertones.

Beyond the unicorn future
The idea of a single future is as mythical as a unicorn. We need to be ready for a complex…

Inspire60: Ken Unsworth
VIDEO: Self confessed footy lover, arts patron and one of Australia's most avant garde artists Ken Unsworth tells us what…

Counter-urban movement city arts doesn't see
The absence of major performing arts companies at the key regional arts conference indicates a failure to see the vitality…

On the move: latest appointments and resignations
New Director of Museum of Brisbane announced.

Lighting the dark spots of creative careers
Even after almost 500 productions, Broadway awards and an international reputation, the working life of a lighting designer remains precarious.

Can the arts free itself from Stockholm Syndrome?
The arts bureaucracy has captured artists with its own mechanistic view of the world. Like David Bowie and Madonna we…

Live art for the virtual generation
In a world where you can be simultaneously on a suburban bus and at a concert half a world away,…