Australia
Calls for end to TAFE cuts as NSW Creative Industries Taskforce releases ‘draft vision’
Visual Arts body calls for end to TAFE arts cuts as NSW Creative Industries taskforce releases 10-year draft action plan.
Mathew Lynn packs in Archibald Prize
Blue Mountains artist Mathew Lynn’s portrait of Tara Moss has been awarded the Archibald Packing Room Prize.
Rose Riley, actor
Rose Riley is starring in the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’s first show for 2013.
Literary festival emerges out of censorship
Up close and bookish with Aung San Suu Kyi at Myanmar’s First International Literary Festival.
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.