Writing and Publishing
Prize money increased for female portraitists
The trust Company has boosted the prize money of the Portia Geach Memorial Award for women artists by 40%.
After costume it’s a spectacle of music video at ACMI
ACMI has announced its next major exhibition to open in September, Spectacle: The Music Video Exhibition
Greens double commitment to arts
The Greens have called for another $10 million in annual funding for the Arts, this time directed to Regional Australia.
Fringe making money for Adelaide
Adelaide Fringe is celebrating a spike in economic impact but Vivid Sydney is finding crowd-control challenges in its success.
New Russian legislation gags artists
In the wake of the Pussy Riot saga Russia has passed a bill to hand out jail terms to those…
Complaints as Vivid victim of own success
Crowd control failures marred the spectacular success of Vivid Sydney.
The new censorship: a campaign against arts funding?
Was the police raid on Paul Yore's Linden Centre exhibition really the start of a right-wing campaign against arts funding?
$1500 opportunity for writers with a disability
The CAL Connections project is seeking essays from emerging writers from marginalised or under-represented backgrounds.
New initiative for Indigenous musicians set to open in Broome
Program aims to strengthen links between Indigenous and mainstream music industry and assist in establishing long-term careers.
Proposed regulations ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’
The Australian Commercial Galleries Association believes that considered measures to protect artists could be too extreme.