Museums

New powers at the Powerhouse
Global experience has completed the executive team at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

Acclaimed New Zealand curator joins the AGNSW
Justin Paton has been named the Art Gallery of New South Wales' new head curator

Gallery to be built at the birthplace of Australian Impressionism
Impressionist Lab and Gallery proposed for Heidelberg.

Art Gallery of South Australia receives major gift
A classic Australian landscape has been gifted to the people of Adelaide.

Cultural assets under threat of fires
This week’s tragic fires in NSW Blue Mountains and Lithgow region threatened the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Lithgow Mine Museum.

Australian Museum Director to step down in 2014
Frank Howarth will leave the Museum after 10 years as Director.

AUDIO: Children revive possum skin art
Aboriginal children are reviving an ancient art of personalised possum skin cloaks, that carry identity messages.

Lumby to join the National Museums Council
The author and public commentator has been slated for a three year term at Australia’s preeminent social history museum.

New young innovative writers
The winners of Express Media's Young Writers Innovation Prize for 2013 have been announced.

Finding readers in the e-book age
Most readers are positive about e-publishing but many writers don’t know how to reach them.