National

We fight the poetic illiteracy
Maxine Beneba Clarke speaks about The Emerging Writers' Festival and her new short story collection.

Lifetime achievement award for arts elder
The Green Room Awards has given a sneak preview, naming winners in lifetime achievement, industry and technical categories.

4000 blue butterflies to swarm a street near you
A swarm of 4000 handcrafted magnetic butterflies will travel across the globe in an ambitious street art project that will…

Living like a refugee for art
A Vietnamese-Australian will put himself through a shadow of his parent's boat journey in the name of art and human…

How to win a writing prize
Former winners and honorees of the Monash Prize share their tips on entering a literary competition.

Reality in Flames: modern Australian art and the Second World War
Greater academic rigour is needed if the War Memorial is to be taken seriously as an art institution.

Clare Wright: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Wright dispels the myth of the Victorian goldfields as an exclusively masculine domain through the re-telling of the gold rush.

Classic chance to head north
The 24th Australian Festival of Chamber Music provides the perfect chance to escape a dreary winter.

Celebrating the act of giving
A woman’s life of philanthropy continues to bestow help and inspiration for the arts

Kylie’s dancers expected to work for free
Dancers shooting a video with Kylie Minogue in Melbourne today were told by a major US-label that there was no…