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Venice to strip down celebrity and focus on work
Provocative architect Rem Koolhaus says his Venice Biennale will be about ‘architecture, not architects’.

Fashioning science: the next revolution in wearables
After a slow start, fashion and science are finally coming together and wearable technologies are no longer a thing of…

Overdraw: A graffiti funding hoax
Graffiti artist CDH has hoaxed the City of Melbourne, with a grant application intended to parody their public art program.…

Last moments of many in glittering career
Australia's longest dancing ballerina is about to retire.

Vivid memoir wins award
Prize for Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship will enable the completion of a personal history

Biennale future may depend on arts independence
Whether the Biennale of Sydney survives may depend on the independence of the Australia Council in the face of an…

Neon Festival to shine brighter still
2014’s Neon Festival of Independent Theatre is set to expand following last year's inaugural event.

Once upon a time beyond the city...
Regional arts practitioners are often characterised as disadvantaged but that's not the story tree-changers tell.

Green cities public forum
With an ambitious target of zero emissions by 2020, the City of Melbourne needs sell businesses the benefits of sustainability.

'If the Sydney Biennale doesn’t need Transfield’s money, why should they be asking for ours?'
The full text of the letter Minister for the Arts Brandis sent the Australia Council warning it off funding the…