Visual Arts
Birds with Skymirrors
Artists take inspiration from anywhere, and create beauty, emotion and provocation. For Lemi Ponifasio that inspiration was frigate birds.
Stories Then & Now - The Asian Australian experience
Personal stories can help us understand universal truths. And so it is with Stories Then & Now, a new theatrical…
The Town that Drowned
Riel Nason’s Commonwealth Prize-winning novel is a story of change, beautifully navigated and narrated by a young social outcast.
Bringing home Australia's Elgin Marbles
A UK export ban is blocking the National Gallery of Australia from buying the first known European images of Australia.
Art meets commerce in pop-up initiative Here and Now
Carriageworks offers a series of purpose-built spaces offering specially commissioned, limited edition works by Australian artists and designers.
Interesting things happen in Brisbane...really
The revamped Museum of Brisbane aims to counter the myth that nothing interesting happens in Brisbane.
Flocking to Carriageworks
Last year was a banner year for Carriageworks, with visitors doubling to 220,000, or roughly the population of Hobart.
Never apologise. It's not funny.
How does an audience respond when a comedian steps out of character and confesses to feeling bad about a show?
Ballarat International Foto Biennale announces festival dates
Join in a month long celebration of photography at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale from 17 August to 15 September…
Ditch Lonely Planet, advises writer
True travel writing needs fear and insecurity not just tourism tips.