Visual Arts

Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
National Portrait Prize reveals People's Choice winner, recipients announced for 2020 National Regional Arts Fellowship, winners for Golden Pen Award…

Queensland announces $22.5 million arts recovery package
Described as a significant investment in the future of Queensland’s arts sector, the latest recovery package includes a First Nations…

Pre-pandemic thinking creates timely digital performance-based festival
Two-years, two venues and five new commissions – BLEED is a collaborative digital festival envisaged pre-COVID-19, where the digital is…

Anyone can do art – so why fund the Arts?
How can art maintain its value as it becomes increasingly commodified? Frances An explores why public funding is still essential.

Artists Essentials Toolkit video #1: how to get your art online
In our new video series we look at getting started with your online presence from a blog to websites to…

Could paid entry become the new norm for galleries and museums?
Research shows that numbers drop off when museum entry is imposed, but are there ways around it to bolster revenue?

How divided are readers on removing Australia's colonialist monuments?
Reader comments show that the removal of colonial monuments in Australia is a deeply divided debate.

On the Move: Latest sector appointments and departures
New board members for Orana Arts and MoAD, Magabala Books' First Nations cadetship, and arts editor steps down at The…

Meditation without having to meditate
Tired of being told to be more mindful? Dr Jackie Bailey believes we can sneak mindfulness into our days for…

Are Australian monuments in line to be toppled?
As a trend sweeps the world, from the US to London, Brussels, Edinburgh and beyond, we ask what Australia’s colonialist…