Australia
Arts education should replace literacy testing
Evidence shows the tens of millions of dollars spent on improving NAPLAN results would be better spent on using arts…
Picking winners: how future stars are spotted
Careers depend on being spotted for an exhibition of emerging artists. It helps to understand how the curator thinks.
Taxing arts prizes, it’s gotta stop
The Greens are calling on the Gillard Government to stop taxing arts prizes, but is anybody listening?
This week’s arts appointments
Your ‘must read’ industry guide to who went where in the arts this week.
Young conductor gives MSO a night to remember
Those attending the last of MSO's Sidney Myer Free Concerts series witnessed a lifetime changing moment for a young conductor…
Are the arts now on the national agenda?
Now we have a National Cultural Policy, government should talk up the arts and encourage business to foot the bill.
Can the creative arts be taught online?
Submissions to the Coalition’s investigation into tertiary learning online close on March 30.
National Cultural Policy launches
The long awaited National Cultural Policy, ‘Creative Australia’ has been released.
Kath Fries – Situational
An exhibition of installation, sculpture, photography and video, Fries leads us through her process of observation and distillation of the…
Danielle Barnes
Sydney based Danielle Barnes (The Boy from Oz, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) will co-star in They’re Playing Our Song…