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Headdresses ruffle festival feathers
Music festivals are banning Native American headdresses, concerned that the fashion item is offensive cultural theft.

Kudos: Congratulations to this week's winners
A ceramics sculptor wins a fellowship, Monash University announces its key alumni, and Patch Theatre is judged most creative.

Breakfast for the star in you
Part-athlete, part-artist, performers place enormous demands on their bodies so physical training and good nutrition need to be on the…

Getting the most out of Google Analytics
The free tool offers innovative ways for arts organisations to maximise their digital marketing strategies.

Is art a commodity?
Speculation, flipping, bid rigging and guarantees all serve to bolster the global art market, but at what cost to transparency?

Curriculum review lacks artistic eye
A review of the Australian school curriculum recommends a major overhaul of arts education but does the arts sector agree?

Impossible questions all architects hate
How much will it cost? Can I move in before Christmas? What will it look like? Architects discuss why they…

Women hit glass ceiling in gallery jobs
Where are the women running Australia's major galleries?

Where to now for contemporary performance?
Live art, greater agency for audiences, and one-on-one performances are now commonplace: what next?

Regional arts: edgy not on the edges
Regional artists struggle with distance, isolation and limited facilities but their creative output is far from marginal, as the vitality…