Visual Arts
How to turn your creative idea into a sustainable business
Creatives looking to launch a business can now attend a bootcamp specifically geared to their needs as part of a…
Wesfarmers announces $4M partnership with NGA
With eyes on Singapore and China, a $4M partnership between the National Gallery and Wesfarmers will enable a major international…
Art lessons from William Kentridge
William Kentridge shared wisdoms of life in the studio – including embracing stupidity, bastardry and saying no – during his…
A seat in the writer's room: writing for stage and screen
Playwright and NIDA graduate Gretel Vella discusses the reality of life behind the keyboard, and the differences between writing for…
'A deep regard for creative endeavour': meet the new Australia Council CEO
Diversifying the arts, working with government and finding new ways to talk about the relevance of the arts in our…
Review: Masters of modern art from the Hermitage, AGNSW
Hermitage Director says this exhibition presents ‘a Hermitage view of the history of modern art,' but it does so much…
How art helps us understand the universe
The discovery of gravitational waves gives us new ways to explore the cosmos, with poets and sound artists as our…
'Father of the Fringe' leaves $500,000 legacy
Three generous bequests amounting to half a million dollars over the next decade will build on the legacy of the…
Review: Prize Fighter, Song for a Weary Throat, Frogman, MIAF
Snapshot reviews of this year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Art is a constant reminder of our colonial wars
Two hundred log coffins were commissioned for Australia’s bicentenary. Thirty years later, the NGA's Director and the project’s curator discuss…