Performing Arts
Henry 4
A carefully planned and skilfully executed adaptation, not a cut-and-paste Shakespeare for the masses.
Possum cloaks reconnecting culture
A new exhibition by art and social photographer Sarah Rhodes turns a lens to an almost forgotten Indigenous cultural and…
Top music honour for national treasure Kev Carmody
Queensland singer-songwriter Kev Carmody has won the $60,000 Australia Council Don Banks Music Award.
Hot trends: Buddhas, Bacon, Barbara Cartland
Cashed-up buyers are creating a heady market for some lesser known genres including Chinese porcelain, post-war painting and even kitsch.
Teachers dissatisfied with Creative Australia
The Federal Government has some homework to do before the education sector embraces Creative Australia.
Sydney headhunts Melbourne directors
Two of Melbourne’s best and brightest theatre-makers have just been appointed as Belvoir’s new Directors in Residence.
EWF invites you into The Discomfort Zone
The annual celebration of our country’s freshest writers, poets, bloggers, journos, Tweeters and speakers.
Arts leaders protest missing freedoms in OzCo Act
Arts industry leaders say the new Australia Council Act fails to protect freedom of expression and leaves key cultural sectors…
Forte digitises Australia’s sheet music legacy
The National Library of Australia has digitised 13,000 Aussie sheet music scores into an iPad app called Forte.
Schools turn up to Turner’s Studio in SA
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s new dedicated learning space opens with Turner’s Studio.