Arts News Opinions & Analysis

Is Australian art reflecting our new world culture? Or are we too busy labelling art to allow it to explore the complexity of diversity?

The powerful nexus of arts and health is finally getting government recognition and submissions are wanted.

With local government elections this year in Queensland, NSW & now Victoria, your vote can affect arts opportunities in your area.

Instead of just arts grants to compensate for market failure, governments should invest in creativity.

Why are women arts administrators and dance teachers while men dominate theatres and senior management?

Disabled people are still disadvantaged both as audiences and creatives.

What art, plays or novels truly represent what it is to be Australian?

What makes a great arts leaders from Russian museums to Australian theatre to Finnish jazz?

With TAFE cuts but a new national arts curriculum where is the coherence to create pathways from school to training to work in creative industries?

Community halls across regional Australia are centres for uncurated community- and artist-driven work.

Radio National will no longer include radio plays or book readings but is the change a loss or an opportunity?

For the first time the Melbourne Festival is including film in its program and all the films are documentaries. It begs the question: are documentaries actually art?

What if purchasing art was as easy as picking up your morning coffee?

Sculpture exhibitions usually have one prize and lots of losers. A new exhibition model is sharing the money.

If opera conjures only images of powdered wigs, lamenting lovers and fake beauty spots, you need to get with the program.

Where are the jobs being grown in the creative economy? What can we do to encourage better alignment of education and training for where the jobs are?

Creativity isn’t just for the arts. The corporate world needs creative people more than ever.

A guide to the four-day boot camp for the mind that is the This is Not Art festival in Newcastle.

TAFE cuts around the country are dramatically lessening both opportunities for arts professionals and public engagement with the arts.

With Live Performance Australia scrapping the Live Theatre Agreement on foreign performers what is the fallout for Australian performers – and what can be done about it?