Visual Arts
Chocolate for the brain
A study of people with dementia shows art, like chocolate, has key ingredients to make people feel good.
10 new rules for public art
A new art project has created guidelines designed to provoke a new era in public art for the city.
Seeing your invisible audience
Out of the shadows: converting companions to subscribers and regular ticket buyers.
Is your life interesting enough for a memoir?
Memoirs and autobiographies regularly fill the top spots on bestseller lists, but not everyone has a life worthy of memoir.
Art you have to be sick to see
Public hospitals across Australia hold significant art collections putting some of our most significant artists to work as remote therapists.
Sensation and sizzle – the summer blockbuster
Sydney unveils details of its summer art blockbusters - one calling to the lover of classics, the other to a…
Placing not plonking: developers and public art
Developers need to do more than commission public art, they need to make it work with the city.
Explore the new vitality of regional arts
The cultural landscape of regional Australia has a vitality that demonstrates art’s power to promote regeneration and connectedness.
NGA returns two sculptures to India
Two works valued at $1.1 million have been deaccessioned from the National Gallery’s Collection due to their suspect provenance, and…
$1.2 million gift puts regional gallery on the map
Philanthropy targeted at building creative regions has led to one of Australia's most significant collections halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.