Australia
How stage and screen professionals can help reduce suicides in Australia
Evidence suggests that the dramatic portrayal of suicide can impact on vulnerable audiences, including contributing to increases in copy-cat incidents…
Nginha ngurambang marunbunmilgirridyu: I love this country – but do you?
Jonathan Jones’ Artstate keynote talk offered fresh pathways forward in our complex colonial conversation.
Critics savage King Kong on Broadway
The massive star of the show, a 2000 pound and 20 foot high puppet, gets rave reviews, the songs and…
Review: Laith McGregor: Borrowed Time, Tweed Regional Gallery
Borrowed Time provides provocative pieces and invite much speculation on McGregor’s thesis about the placement of the artist in the…
What it really takes to juggle an arts organisation with family life
The director of Wellington's LitCrawl, Claire Mabey, reflects on what a family-friendly arts organisation might look like.
ICYMI: This week’s arts news round-up
Fraudulent art dealings; first convention centre to lead arts with a Reconciliation Action Plan; art conquers Bathurst car culture and…
The turgid trajectory of sculpture in education
An international panel at the Sydney Sculpture Symposium asked whether our education system is failing sculpture.
Review: Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan has once again produced an extraordinary work.
How a supportive environment encourages students to learn and grow
Applications are now open for the 2019 intake at Melbourne’s prestigious National Theatre Drama School.
Review: A Good Bloke and other events at Artstate Bathurst
Artstate Bathurst highlights included a rehearsed reading of an in-development script and a concert by the NSW Regional Youth Orchestra.