Features
10 new rules for public art
A new art project has created guidelines designed to provoke a new era in public art for the city.
Seeing your invisible audience
Out of the shadows: converting companions to subscribers and regular ticket buyers.
Is your life interesting enough for a memoir?
Memoirs and autobiographies regularly fill the top spots on bestseller lists, but not everyone has a life worthy of memoir.
Art you have to be sick to see
Public hospitals across Australia hold significant art collections putting some of our most significant artists to work as remote therapists.
Placing not plonking: developers and public art
Developers need to do more than commission public art, they need to make it work with the city.
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.
Digging for art in the garden
From Monet's water lilies to Kahlo's cacti, the garden is a seductive subject for artists, contemporary as well as classical.
Using neuroscience to stimulate creativity
Tapping into the science of the brain enables creatives to overcome blocks and release potential.
Talking dirty: the truth about teenage boys and porn
Out of the bedroom and onto the stage! Teenagers reveal what they really see.
21 Australian classics you should have read
Reading 'Seven Little Australians' and 'My Brilliant Career' isn't enough to call yourself a well-read Australian. Score yourself.