Visual Arts

You've got (art) mail
Stop bemoaning the loss of elegant letter writing. There are ways to make art out of email and text messages.

Big boost for Indigenous arts
South Australia is experiencing unprecedented high unemployment but there's cause to celebrate the economic stimulus that culture is bringing to…

The arts could revive our still-born national identity
We need the arts if Australian identity is to be anything more than pallid myths of self sacrifice and chest-thumping…

Six reasons visitors reject your audio guide
The British Museum has uncovered some tricks to getting visitors to use their audio guide.

Venues defend programming decisions
The claim that regional venues support touring ahead of local artists is ill-informed and provocative.

Palace antics collide with popular culture at Versailles
The same instincts that drive glamour magazines and television celebrity culture will ensure a magnetic pull to the fabulous opulence…

A new campaign for the arts
Conflict over the roles of the Australia Council and the Ministry don't address the real policy failures so #freethearts is…

New Deputy Director AGNSW
Maud Page returns to Sydney as Deputy Director AGNSW after more than a decade with QAGOMA; and Curator Asia Art…

IMAGinE you’re a winner
The annual IMAGinE awards promote and strengthen the NSW museum and gallery sector.

Craft artists will be forced to leave NSW
If planned changes go ahead it will be almost impossible to become a silver, glass or ceramic artist in NSW.