Visual Arts

Emerging Writers Festival expands to Adelaide
Firmly focused on writers instead of readers, this hands-on festival aims to energise Adelaide’s already active literary culture.

Elementary my dear fox fur
Move over fashion police, the fashion detective has the power to create historical narratives around unattributed garments.

Synaesthesia+
A two-day sensory wonderland overtook MONA during Synaesthesia+.

Australia Council has turned its Grants Program on its head
They said they’d listened; and yesterday they delivered. The AusCo’s restructured Grants Program is less convoluted but lacks detail. How…

M.A.D.E. for the Eureka message
Ballarat will become the centre of attention as the 160th anniversary celebrations of the Eureka Stockade heat up.

From the outside in
As global interest in outsider art rises, Melbourne will host a three-day conference on this once-peripheral artform.

What's it all about, Alphie?
As part of an undersea art exhibition a five-metre-tall, 15-metre-long sea turtle is floating through Cockle Bay.

Sleepless in Hobart: MONA's summer shoutout
Australia's contemporary art mecca, Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, has announced the dates for summer festival MOFO.

Kiwis take off in Edinburgh
New Zealand's debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with contemporary dance group Black Grace is drawing crowds and rave reviews.

On the streets where you lived
An upcoming exhibition in Melbourne looks at life in the city as recorded in the pages of the Sands &…