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Toilets become mini-galleries across rail network
Is it advertising, sponsorship or just savvy thinking? Media company Smartbox launches video art project across 200 Sydney loos.

ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
It's more than just Budget 2019 - we wrap this week's art news you may have missed in the media…

Vale Martyn Cook
Remembered for his encyclopedic knowledge, impeccable style and wit, Martyn Cook is a great loss to the international fraternity of…

Artists take VR to the next level
The criticism plaguing VR is that while it is great technology the content is dismal. Artists are pushing the form…

Review: The National 2019 – New Australian Art
Insisting it is not a survey, this tri-venue exhibition takes the pulse on art making in Australia - middle-ground thinking…

Review: Dobell Drawing Prize 21
Drawing gets a rethink at the National Art School, but does the work rise to the level of the rhetoric,…

Why WA’s Chamber of Arts and Culture is a good model for all
Essentially a lobbying body, WA’s Chamber of Arts and Culture sits between and across government, business, philanthropy and arts organisations…

Exit Interview: Stefano Carboni, in hindsight
After a decade of steering the Art Gallery of WA through the highs and the lows, Director Stefano Carboni prepares…

Inside the mind of an art patron
What drives a collector to amass artworks, build a multi-million dollar museum to house them, then happily hand it over?

Review: West Side Story, Opera on the Harbour
More aptly "wet" side story, the show on the harbour opened, but it was a lost opportunity as a classic…