| In her last year as Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival, Lisa Dempster is setting her sites on breaking the boundaries of the written word.
| New Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley has worked on film festivals in five continents. Now he has a chance to show how he became the festival's first non-Australian director.
| The film industry is often perceived as one of the most glamorous industries there is. But what’s it really like to work on site? We discover the joys and stresses of location management.
| A recently published study suggests that self-deception inhibits laughter.
| With the release this week of the Independent Review of the Australia Council for the Arts a new National Cultural Policy is one step nearer to release. But is it now or never?
| Music performance studies are being downgraded for a job-focused curriculum as ANU plans savage cuts to its Music School.
| Scott O'Hara lets loose on the National Cultural Policy.
| The process of putting pen to paper, while cathartic, can also cultivate an invaluable thirst for knowledge; something Kat Muscat, the brand new editor of Voiceworks knows all too well.
| David Walsh, the founder of Tasmania's revered Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), shares the personal inspiration behind the gallery's newest exhibition, Theatre of the World.
| An active artist is automatically a media activist. The new media is a natural extension of what artists do.
| Today, the Treasurer Wayne Swan announced the allocation of the $1.5 billion Budget surplus to support the arts. Well, in Tamara Winikoff's ideal world he did.
| Publicists. Do you need one, or want to be one? We’ve asked two Australian publicists to help us help you.
| Ah the C-Word, the most controversial of all the words. But Scott O'Hara might be thinking of something entirely different to you.
| An L.A. street artist has allowed his love for rap music to take shape through his art, producing paintings of famous rappers as medieval noblemen.
| What's it like to be a mentor and a mentee? Sandra Carluccio (Brisbane, QLD) & Steve Bull from PVI Collective (Perth, WA) discuss the Australia Council’s national JUMP mentoring program.
| Well that was this year’s budget then, all that build up and... now what? The arts at least, are looking pretty stable, with no big cuts; there’s even a little bit extra.
| Just because millions of unimaginative people have tattoos, doesn’t mean tattoos can’t be art and it doesn’t mean the artists should be blamed for all the dolphins, butterflies and Southern Crosses.
| The Voice is a huge success, not just in Australia, but the world over. Despite reluctance from 'real' musicians - and other artists - to embrace the wildly popular network talent show, Lachlan Bryan finds that you might ...
| We’re all born artists but only 0.2% of all Australians will make it their life. Somewhere along the way the rest of us made a choice.
| Dancer Angela Perry tells us how the art form played a part in Buddha's Birthday celebrations in Perth.