Australia

The arts summit as a centre of learning
The Regional Arts Australia Summit expects visitors take away knowledge and pride in First Nations arts and culture this year.

A town that's a cultural gold mine
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, host for Regional Arts Australia's biennial conference is not 'not just another mining town'.

Centre to the edges: does art travel?
Regional Arts Australia Summit: Arts & Edges challenges the route art takes, and intends to alter it, just slightly.

Big names join ‘forward-thinking’ directors
Two more influential figures are announced as the latest additions to Sydney Theatre Company’s board of directors.

Is critical dialogue a dying art?
Recent debate on The Conversation serves an opposition between print and online media, but online reviewing deserves a fair go.

Adelaide becomes immersed in Asian art
Culturally rich and contemporary, two new exhibitions for OzAsia Festival will premier at the city's Samstag Museum.

Jane McKernan: Mass Movement
A pleasurably physical work that ultimately offers little to engage with.

Tartuffe: The Hypocrite
Classical rhyming couplets reforged into a profane Aussie vernacular could be a disaster, but Fleming's production triumphs.

Files can’t wait: the future of the National Film and Sound Archive
The NFSA has been conducting a fence-mending exercise with stakeholders after its recent restructure drew an angry reaction.

I see a hotel and I want to paint it red
Opening August, The Watson is the latest in a chain of boutique Art Hotels and takes its name from Indigenous…