Visual Arts

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Finalists announced for Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Regional Arts Resilience Grants Program open, Kill Your Darlings announces School Writing Prize…

Exit Interview: Michael Rolfe, CEO Museums & Galleries NSW
After 10 years in the role, and more than 30 advocating for the arts, Michael Rolfe is stepping down as…

Arts think tank A New Approach to go it alone
Previously part of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, A New Approach is set to become an independent body after…

Regional excellence won’t take second place to a pandemic
Regional art doesn’t exist; rather art practice that happens in other places does. It is about excellence and diversity, and…

We need to talk about colonialism and our museums
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Must Rhodes fall? In her book The Whole Picture, Alice Proctor…

On the Move: Latest sector appointments and departures
Opera Queensland’s Executive Director steps down, as does Corrugated Iron Youth Arts’ Executive Producer, and more.

Dealing with your harshest critic
Why is it such a long, complicated process to admit to yourself that you’re an artist? Verity Johnson investigates how…

Ten Australian niche museums
Have you ever viewed a sculpture 40 feet underwater? Or taken a peek into the bedrooms of Russia's aristocracy? Australia’s…

ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
New podcast funding, Deadly Fringe is back, $35M bequest for QAGOMA, Orange Gallery redevelopment, Pinchgut turns to film, Children's Book…

‘We're tradies too!’ Melbourne's photography industry demands to return to work
The Commercial Photography Industry has petitioned the VIC Government under the placard ‘We are tradies too’, in a desperate plea…