Visual Arts
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.
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?
AUDIO: Problems with resale royalties
Both artists and gallery owners have concerns about proposed reforms to secondary payments for visual artists.