Opinions & Analysis
How music can teach the world to listen
The Seekers wanted to teach the world to sing but music can help us with a skill we need more:…
Proposal art - is it just grant rhetoric or a more complex equation?
Did you get your funding this year - what happens to all those good ideas?
Why we need an arts party
The new Arts Party is not a small issue party. There are good reasons why all of Australia needs this…
Why Tasmania deserves extra funds
The Australia Council figures released last week showed Tasmania receives a disproportionate slice of funding. So it should.
Should we fund Wagner operas or Kyle Sandilands statues?
In an age of user-generated content and zombie walks, it’s hard to defend opera’s pre-eminence.
Turning women to crime
Twenty years ago the Scarlet Stilettos changed crime writing from a gritty macho genre to a sexy stage for women…
Facing the overstimulated audience
Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..
Modern Australian buildings are unfriendly
What makes one space adorable and engaging? What makes another unfriendly and inhospitable?
Arts vulnerable in Education Review
A review into demand-driven university places may make it harder to access education in the arts.
What went wrong at Arts Centre Melbourne
Despite huge losses, the Arts Centre plans to stick with the strategy of the chief who has fallen on her…