Writing and Publishing

Contemporary art replaces industrial giant
When industry moved out and left a country town floundering, art festival Cementa moved in to activate it.

Finding the right place to sell your art
A new kind of gallery space is emerging, straddling the distance between the traditional commercial gallery and the artist-run not-for-profit.

What's hot in comedy in 2017
From comedians who deliberately make you sad to a new wave of feminist humour, comedy festivals are the perfect time…

Arts professions excluded from skilled visa list
Arts organisations will face limitations on the use of international talent under changes to visa laws.

How to be a boss about being a boss
Whether you have a team of reports or a single offsider, learning to manage people is an essential career skill.

Art's truth behind Stella-winning fiction
The winner of this year’s Stella Prize is a novel built around the transformative power of art, as the characters…

The end of Catalyst: four ironies
We need to understand the failure of Catalyst in more complex terms than a zero-sum game of winners and losers.

Age discrimination on the increase
Young workers expect older colleagues to get out of the way, freeing up jobs and ceding key cultural spaces.

Radical self-care we need more than a manicure
Self-care has been hijacked by a consumption-driven wellness industry but activists are reclaiming it as a political act which defies…

20 ways to read more
Some of the world's most successful people read voraciously. But can mere mortals do it too?