National

Knowing when your art is successful
We have metrics to judge audience engagement and box office figures, but no formal process to gauge aesthetic success.

Exhibition explodes Australia’s atomic past
A new touring exhibition tells the long overdue story of Australia’s dark atomic past through five decade of art.

Fighting xenophobia with art
Social cohesion is under the spotlight with recent research exposing Australia's racism. Art can help.

Elgar's Cello Concerto | Master 7
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra proved, once again, that it really has reinvented itself as a world class orchestra.

Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories starts off as good old fashioned story telling at its best but falls madly flat.

SwanSongs: Bliss
Swansongs is a series that ranges from the very good to the outright brilliant.

Vale Klaus Moje - Australia's father of glass
The founder of the ANU’s Glass Workshop and Canberra Glassworks has died leaving a legacy of 'painting with glass'.

Australia's secret to explaining the value of the arts
The answer to the perennial questions about the value of the arts may lie in the traditions of Indigenous culture.

Asian arts centres offer opportunities for Australians
Two way traffic between Australia and Asia can benefit the industry on both continents.

Vile Bodies
When viewed through the lens of contemporary China, Vile Bodies becomes much more than a study of the body.