Television
This week’s award winners
A young writer, several filmmakers, and an Australian-penned musical on Broadway are included among this week’s award winners.
Prize money increased for female portraitists
The trust Company has boosted the prize money of the Portia Geach Memorial Award for women artists by 40%.
After costume it’s a spectacle of music video at ACMI
ACMI has announced its next major exhibition to open in September, Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition
Greens double commitment to arts
The Greens have called for another $10 million in annual funding for the Arts, this time directed to Regional Australia.
Fringe making money for Adelaide
Adelaide Fringe is celebrating a spike in economic impact but Vivid Sydney is finding crowd-control challenges in its success.
New Russian legislation gags artists
In the wake of the Pussy Riot saga Russia has passed a bill to hand out jail terms to those…
Complaints as Vivid victim of own success
Crowd control failures marred the spectacular success of Vivid Sydney.
The new censorship: a campaign against arts funding?
Was the police raid on Paul Yore's Linden Centre exhibition really the start of a right-wing campaign against arts funding?
New initiative for Indigenous musicians set to open in Broome
Program aims to strengthen links between Indigenous and mainstream music industry and assist in establishing long-term careers.
Proposed regulations ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’
The Australian Commercial Galleries Association believes that considered measures to protect artists could be too extreme.