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Australian culture in the Age of FANG
FANG – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google and their ilk now dominate global culture. Where does that leave Australian identity?

The River
Like the schools of fish in the eponymous River, the latest from Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre is is teeming with…

Funeral planners look to art to replace religion
A third of Australians don't align themselves with religion when they are alive so there's a big market for an…

Arts budget 2016 doesn't hurt (much) but doesn't heal
For the arts, the 2016-17 budget is steady as she goes: it neither inflicts major damage nor helps heal the…

Exposing the creative industries fallacy
The idea of creative industries is based on an economy that has no way to count the things that matter.

With Love and Fury Brodsky Quartet & Katie Noonan
With Love and Fury is a collection of new works for strings and voice based on a selection of poems…

Who got the Catalyst money?
On the eve of the 2016 Budget, the winners of Catalyst funding taken from the Australia Council a year ago…

Creatives share traits with psychopaths
Bold, sexually appealing, risk-taking, arrogant... are you a psychopath or just creative?

Vale Derek Ives
The Australian circus community is in mourning following the death of clown, rigger and friend Derek Ives on Thursday.

Why people choose arts experiences (the wombat's a clue)
Animal insights can help clarify what your audience is looking for and how they see you.