Richard Watts
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Award rewards innovative thinking
Risk-taking, analysing the potential in any situation and looking for creative solutions to existing challenges are vital to creative thinking…
14 cultural orgs partner to present new festival
The inaugural Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts features over 60 events from 15 nations, including 25 specially commissioned world premieres.
Uni can't afford art with a conscience
Art with a social conscience has fallen victim to a university with an economic agenda, say students and staff.
Asian arts centres offer opportunities for Australians
Two way traffic between Australia and Asia can benefit the industry on both continents.
Seeing your invisible audience
Out of the shadows: converting companions to subscribers and regular ticket buyers.
Explore the new vitality of regional arts
The cultural landscape of regional Australia has a vitality that demonstrates art’s power to promote regeneration and connectedness.
Discrimination alleged as board suspends festival GM
The general manager of Adelaide's Feast Festival has been suspended just five weeks before the festival.
Attracting new audiences to contemporary dance
By turns abstract and emotive, celebratory and confronting, contemporary dance can be a difficult art form to sell to audiences.
Talking dirty: the truth about teenage boys and porn
Out of the bedroom and onto the stage! Teenagers reveal what they really see.
Riding the political roller coaster
Artists and arts organisations need to have the ear of government but getting too close to the Arts Minister of…