Visual Arts
Twitter to launch music app
Popular social networking site Twitter has revealed plans to launch its very own music app.
Japan prints the world’s smallest book
Japan has broken the Guinness World Record for the world’s smallest book, creating a book with pages the size of…
Ai Weiwei plans to release heavy metal album
Dissident Chinese visual artist Ai Weiwei has revealed plans to release a heavy metal album.
Taxing arts prizes, it’s gotta stop
The Greens are calling on the Gillard Government to stop taxing arts prizes, but is anybody listening?
Bob Dylan is first rocker induced into American Academy of Arts and Letters
Bob Dylan has been awarded a rare honour by becoming the first rocker to be admitted to the American Academy…
This week’s arts appointments
Your ‘must read’ industry guide to who went where in the arts this week.
Young conductor gives MSO a night to remember
Those attending the last of MSO's Sidney Myer Free Concerts series witnessed a lifetime changing moment for a young conductor…
Are the arts now on the national agenda?
Now we have a National Cultural Policy, government should talk up the arts and encourage business to foot the bill.
Can the creative arts be taught online?
Submissions to the Coalition’s investigation into tertiary learning online close on March 30.
National Cultural Policy launches
The long awaited National Cultural Policy, ‘Creative Australia’ has been released.