Visual Arts

How to trade art with your dentist
Research into the barter economy aims to help artists pay with art for the things they really need.

Tracey Moffatt: Laudanum and other works
A thought provoking exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Greens promise $270.2 million for the arts
The Australian Greens are adding the arts to their Federal election platform with a policy that will not only reverse…

Young talent lost in the sound of silence
Australia's cultural life is being significantly impoverished by the lack of support for talented young artists.

How to make money from your blog
Blogging is a business anyone can get into but only a few can make pay.

How to survive digital overload
A successful blog or community management role has users contacting you 24/7. Here's how to survive.

VIDEO: Who is Cindy Sherman?
In the era of the selfie, the work of conceptual photographer Cindy Sherman has a new potency.

More than 100 touring exhibitions threatened by cuts
The defunding of the NETS Australia networks jeopardised scores of projects set to tour to regional Australian galleries in coming…

Don’t kill the feeders
Short term thinking is destroying the arts ecology by stripping it from the grassroots up.

Six good news stories for the arts
We know it's been a tough time so here is some news to make you smile.