Visual Arts
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.
Erika Scott – no wonder
The installation of found objects that comprises Erika Scott’s latest exhibition inspires multiple themes of duality.
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
The most exhibited artist you have never heard of
With work on display in all Australian capital cities, you'd think that Bruce Brown would be a celebrated figure in…
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.
A moment for Melbourne
Melbourne's arts precinct has a new public sculpture and it needed a code and map to get it in place…
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.