National

Kids teach museums how to play
Museum Victoria consulted more than 600 experts to create its new Children's Gallery and 500 of them were kids. Now…

Finding hope for Indigenous arts
An Indigenous Festival director is using the psychology of hope to reframe cultural exchange.

NGV accused of underpaying its guards
Evidence is increasing of a salary rort at Victoria's premier gallery with security sub-contractors paying gallery guards in cash and…

Secret art exposes artists' hidden lives
Would you display art prompted by an affair if you didn't want your spouse to find out? 24 Australian photographers…

Michelangelo and Picasso did it; now your kids can too
School holiday camp has been reimagined for budding artists, offering learning in an art school environment with NAS’s new Future…

Five women, three men honoured in Australia Council awards
Novelist Kate Grenville, audio artist Madeleine Flynn and theatre director Rosemary Myers are among the eight recipients of the prestigious…

Inspirational quotes for strong women
Sources of strength from Lady Gaga, JK Rowling, Georgia O'Keefe and many others.

We still need a room of our own (or at least a Facebook group)
Chick lit, authoress, woman writer - we often shudder at the application of gender labels. Can women claim these terms…

Versus Rodin challenges how we view art
Set against queasy green walls, be prepared for a very physical experience with this exhibition – not just a rethink…

Jean Harley Was Here by Heather Taylor Johnson
This book opens with a moving and subtle account of an accident.