Visual Arts

Career spotlight: Conductor
Three conductors reflect on the steps that led to their current positions, and offer advice for those following in their…

How to heal yourself with art
A book, film, or painting may be just the prescription you need to overcome anxiety, grief, depression, lethargy or ordinary…

Last tango with ethics
Revelations this week about the filming of The Last Tango in Paris raise broader issues for the ethics of hoodwinking…

What are festivals for?
As the number of arts festivals across Australia mushroom, is it time to consider the point of such cultural clustering?

Gifts of the desert
The Artists of Ampilatwatja community has developed distinctive desert art into products that make appealing Christmas gifts.

On the Move: appointments and resignations
One theatre head departs, another is appointed, and the AD of a major festival steps down.

Art that guarantees a sugar rush
GOMA celebrates its tenth anniversary with a sugar high, more than 250 artworks that challenge and play with our perceptions…

GOMA unveils a net of memory
Like ‘Chinese Whispers’, Judy Watson’s new sculpture carries the changing voices of the GOMA’s Brisbane River site.

Indigenous textiles in a contemporary light
The GOMA brand is more than big art and big spaces. Contemporary practice is also explored through a delicate exhibition…

GOMA Turns 10 Summer Festival
A cracker of a festival will bring Brisbane audiences out of the heat for five days in January, but will…