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Democratising the written word with th...

Matt Millikan | 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.

Sydney Film Festival welcomes globetro...

Leo Ribeiro | 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 fine art of the right location

Travis Heinrich | 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.

Don’t find that funny? You could lack ...

artsHub | A recently published study suggests that self-deception inhibits laughter.

A step closer to the National Cultural...

Fiona Mackrell | 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?

Uni decimating Music School

Deborah Stone | Music performance studies are being downgraded for a job-focused curriculum as ANU plans savage cuts to its Music School.

Where's the Community in this Cultural...

Scott O'Hara | Scott O'Hara lets loose on the National Cultural Policy.

Young writers find their Voice(works)

Sarah Adams | 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.

Skipping church to discover the world

David Walsh | 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.

The artist as media activist

artsHub | An active artist is automatically a media activist. The new media is a natural extension of what artists do.

Not The Budget

Tamara Winikoff | 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.

Pathway to publicity: to sell or be so...

Ebonie Hyland | Publicists. Do you need one, or want to be one? We’ve asked two Australian publicists to help us help you.

What's in a word?

Scott O'Hara | Ah the C-Word, the most controversial of all the words. But Scott O'Hara might be thinking of something entirely different to you.

Street artist gives rappers the royal ...

artsHub | 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.

A JUMP mentorship under the looking gl...

artsHub | 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.

Small lift for the arts in Federal Bud...

Fiona Mackrell | 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.

Are tattoos art?

Matt Millikan | 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.

5 things we can learn from The Voice

Lachlan Bryan | 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 ...