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50 ideas to make a city more creative
From the pragmatic to the absurd, here’s 50 bright ideas to make a city more creative and playful.
Cultural capitals: Melbourne
With its famous laneway graffiti, dense commercial gallery scene and UNESCO City of Literature title, Melbourne likes to claim it…
Is arts funding ethical?
When developing countries need clean water, can we justify arts philanthropy? Philosopher Peter Singer, artistic director Robyn Archer and arts…
Ironically, ISIS' destruction shows the importance of curators
The war on culture by Islamic State demonstrates that the study of history, art and antiquity is a powerful and…
Cash-free ways to earn a living
The arts are seeing a return to the bartering economy where cash is replaced by deals focused on time, goods…
Essential guide to working for free
Creative professionals are bombarded by requests to work for free. Check on these guidelines for when to say yes, how…
Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.
Top Ten Picks: Melbourne Writers Festival
With more than 500 international and local authors, scriptwriters, bloggers and thinkers, punters need help trawling the Melbourne Writers Festival…
Ten dos and don'ts for thinking about arts funding and the NPEA
Artists must take the opportunity to sharpen their minds as well as their rhetoric.
Working in Asia: No place for the individual
The artists as individual, innovator or iconoclast are Western archetype unhelpful in working with Asian art.