Visual Arts
The original escape for makers
A program for those who need time to develop their creative practice or learn a new skill.
Perhaps the arts can learn innovation from banking
The arts like to think of themselves as the heart of originality but perhaps we can learn from info tech,…
Beating subconscious sexism in the job market
We know people are more likely to hire people like themselves. So how do we break a pattern where Artistic…
Tim Flannery on originality in the digital age
An exhibition of digital art prompts an environmental scientist to question the changing meaning of artistic creation.
Kids teach museums how to play
Museum Victoria consulted more than 600 experts to create its new Children's Gallery and 500 of them were kids. Now…
Finding hope for Indigenous arts
An Indigenous Festival director is using the psychology of hope to reframe cultural exchange.
NGV accused of underpaying its guards
Evidence is increasing of a salary rort at Victoria's premier gallery with security sub-contractors paying gallery guards in cash and…
Secret art exposes artists' hidden lives
Would you display art prompted by an affair if you didn't want your spouse to find out? 24 Australian photographers…
Michelangelo and Picasso did it; now your kids can too
School holiday camp has been reimagined for budding artists, offering learning in an art school environment with NAS’s new Future…
Five women, three men honoured in Australia Council awards
Novelist Kate Grenville, audio artist Madeleine Flynn and theatre director Rosemary Myers are among the eight recipients of the prestigious…