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Has digital made the arts more accessible?
This year, we all pivoted to an online model but did it help the disabled community? At our recent Visions…
Exhibition Review: Isolate Make and Design Isolate, ADC
Making art in the pandemic directly affects the work itself. This exhibition is both history and direct reflection of lived…
SPN's 2020 Book of the Year Award goes to Tasmanian essayist
Pete Hay's Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul has been awarded The Small Press Network's Book of…
Why we need an Australian poet laureate in 2021
Poetry tells the story of a country and its people, so why doesn’t Australia support this artform? Andy Jackson thinks…
No Friend But The Mountains transformed into song cycle
Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning novel has been turned into a symphonic song cycle by composer Luke Styles and will have its world premiere at…
Strengthening performing arts touring the focus of new advisory group
Expressions of interest from people wishing to join the Touring Advisory Group, to be co-convened by Regional Arts Australia and…
The Big List: the Visual Arts in 2020
From the scandals, the censorships, the funding wins, gender re-balance, staff cuts, new museum openings, and the big exhibitions that…
Vale 2020: Saluting those we lost this year
We salute the lives and careers of the artists, performers and patrons who took their final curtain call in 2020.
Book Review: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
A sci-fi epic of technologies and cultures clashing across the stars.
Who made the FIVEX Billboard Art Prize cut?
From native bird calls to sonic visualisations of public space, the inaugural swag of finalists for the Fivex Art Prize…