Opinions & Analysis
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…
Dead By Page 50: the Three Little Aboriginal Pigs of Australian Narrative
In art, Australia needs Aboriginal heroes and Aboriginal Everymen and Everywomen, not just noble savages or doomed innocents.
When friends go feral
Tensions between volunteers and governance are inevitable. Poorly handled, they will destroy a cultural organisation.
Measuring the value of the arts
Ticket numbers don't tell the whole story but how do you calculate the value of empathy, transformation or community-building?
Refugee gratitude from another era
As borders close to asylum seekers, a powerful work of gratitude reminds Australia of a kinder era.
What makes a good Arts Minister?
Industry knowledge? Passion? Political nous? Australian arts identities discuss the skills needed in such a role.
The day the music died
Why does the death of an artist hit us so hard, and why do we need to publicise our grief?