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How wall colour manipulates the audience
ArtsHub speaks with six curators on the merits of painting gallery walls to heighten audience engagement, build narrative or just…

On the Move: latest appointments and departures
Penrith Regional Gallery appoints new Director, Canberra Theatre Centre Director announces retirement, new Board member at Sydney Writers Festival, and…

Beef, coal, and hot tracks: Aus music exports earn $195 million each year
Australian music is performing remarkably overseas, according to a new Australia Council report.

ICYMI: The week in arts
Uluru Statement up for NAIDOC Week, Sydney's new take on Indigenous buskers, plus the week's art news in festivals and…

Book Review: Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
This is one of the best murder thrillers to hit the bookshops in a long time.

It's a new dawn, it's a new day - CIAF is a frontier for artistic sustainability
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, we speak with Artistic Director of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Janina Harding on how remote communities…

Book Review: Slugger by Martin Holmen
An all-too-realistic thriller with a protagonist who, while not likeable, is attractive and compelling.

Book Review: Australia Day by Stan Grant
A remarkable book that combines memoir, essays and philosophy.

From little things: the long gestation of my book
Finding and losing agents, drafting, re-drafting and forgetting about his book were all part of the publishing process for Peter…

Review: Unfinished Business, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (ACT)
This exhibition demonstrates the importance of experimental art spaces supporting solid and sustained local practice in the shadow of the…