Visual Arts
Changes to multi-year arts funding announced
The NSW Government has announced new guidelines for mutli-year arts funding, with a review in the announcement's wake to ensure…
Making a Museum of Happiness
In a world of political polarisation, environmental emergency and inequality, can museums become centres that improve mental health? Tony Butler…
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson: Step Into Paradise, Powerhouse Museum (NSW)
A great Australian story told through fashion that is a call for us to question our individual sense of identity…
Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Entrants sought for 2019 Patrick White Playwright Fellowship, winner of 2019 Australian Poetry Slam competition announced, finalists revealed for South…
Game Masters, National Film and Sound Archive (ACT)
ACMI’s popular interactive exhibition comes to Canberra, showcasing the diversity and creativity of games.
New cultural precinct model built on social agency
The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct is a site conflicted by trauma, but is now being turned into a cultural venue…
Breaking down silos builds good cultural leadership
‘Some of my most meaningful mentors have been from entirely unrelated industries,’ says Tina Walsberger, Edinburgh International Festival’s Marketing and…
Healing art in hospitals and communities
A new collaboration between a council, a hospital, a community, and an art therapist breaks the stigma on mental health…
Terra nullius is Australia's unfinished business
Addressing the climate emergency and improving relationships with Indigenous Australians and Pacific Islanders means building people-to-people exchange, according to our…
The Lucid Shell/Concerning Blue, Moonah Arts Centre (TAS)
Maria MacDermott’s work plays with interactions between human forms and other organic matter, while another exhibition has four ceramicists exploring…