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It takes two to make art work.

It takes two to make art work.

Cressida Bradley | The relationship between the artist and their audience is enduring, empowering, transformational and critical as well as loving. And often, all at the same time. But what exactly does an audience contribute to an artist’s work?

Perth’s first fringe festival a roarin...

Perth’s first fringe festival a roaring success

ArtsHub | The inaugural Perth FRINGE WORLD has finished proceedings with high fives all around. Huge audience numbers and satisfied performers mean the sky’s the limit for Australia’s newest fringe fest.

Mike Wilmot - dirty old bastard

Mike Wilmot - dirty old bastard

Melanie Sheridan | A "bear-like, gravel-voiced" Canuck with a dirty mouth that's won him several awards, Mike Wilmot is a hard-drinking, "politically and anatomically incorrect" comedian for adults.

Fashion for all

Fashion for all

Leo Ribeiro | When the 2012 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival – the world’s largest consumer fashion event - launches on March 8 with its biggest cultural program yet, art-lovers will be able to experience fashion in more ways than its ...

10 arts internships worth considering

10 arts internships worth considering

ArtsHub | Interning can be simultaneously the best and worst thing for you. Yes, you will have to do the jobs that nobody else wants to, but you’ll also gain valuable opportunities to prove your abilities as well as network with the ...

Women in Classical Music

Women in Classical Music

Callum Moncrieff | Women have had a hard time in classical music, as they have had in society in general. But I was shocked when I learned in high school that in Australia, women were only granted the right to vote in 1902 (and this was only in ...

Experiencing the arts

Experiencing the arts

Lucy Shorrocks | When was the last time you did something for the first time? Not eating a different food or travelling to a different part of the world, but an occasion where you parted with cash for an experience where you didn’t ...

The Wild Duck flies south

The Wild Duck flies south

Sarah Adams | Belvoir’s production of ‘The Wild Duck’ collected a slew of awards for the company, and now Melbourne audiences will get their chance to see Simon Stone’s reinterpretation of Ibsen’s classic.

The merry ménage à trois of food, wine...

The merry ménage à trois of food, wine & art

Sarah Adams | Food, wine and art may seem like an unlikely partnership but the three have more in common than you may think. Together they are tripping the light fantastic into the 20th anniversary of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

The Diary of a Sundance volunteer

The Diary of a Sundance volunteer

Adrienne Marrone | In 2012 I packed my bags and moved from Brisbane to Sydney to study screenwriting at AFTRS. I knew nobody but after a film degree and five years living overseas I was ready to go for broke.