Visual Arts
'Busy' is not a badge of honour
Working at a frenetic pace is a disease of the contemporary workplace. Boasting about it is positively perverse.
Graduate studies make artists more experimental
Former NIDA students explain how graduate studies enabled them to break out of patterns and create more daring work.
How to break into the arts and entertainment industries
Building relationships and meeting the right people are skills everyone needs to learn. Here are our tips to get you…
Teaching beauty to emerging filmmakers
A sense of beauty can be taught but learning to make beautiful films requires complex skill development.
How to start a new festival
Old festivals close but newcomers draw crowds. In a saturated market, how does a new festival get a foothold?
SA organisations to merge in wake of funding cuts
Adelaide’s two contemporary art organisations, CACSA and AEAF, have formally announced they will amalgamate in 2017.
Proving the real value of the arts
The arts needs to stop trying to justify itself in economic terms and embrace the real public value it delivers.
What’s wrong with excellence in the arts
Excellence sounds like a motherhood concept but it is actually a code word for a narrow conservative agenda.
AFTRS Open Day opens doors
AFTRS invites prospective students to learn about the 2017 BA Screen, Diplomas and Postgraduate programs, meet tutors and alumni, plus…
8 gold medal artworks to cheer the Olympics
To mark the opening of the Olympics, we walk through some of the most important artworks celebrating sport.