Arts News Opinions & Analysis

Arts organisations need to be savvy about the assets they can offer business in return for investment.

Film producers need to leverage from Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) Awards as US studio executives do with the Oscars.

Aboriginal art has become a source of legal evidence for native title claims.

Anyone can get up a Fringe show but how do you break in to the stages beyond?

Ignore the naysayers, university degrees in creative arts equip students to become flexible, entrepreneurial workers with a range of career opportunities.

Global tours don't have to be a pipe dream. Develop skills for building international relationships in the arts and finding overseas audiences.

There is something about working away from home that focuses the mind, gets you out of tired old patterns and allows for an immersive creative experience.

Snobbery and short-sightedness are preventing artists being trained as craftspeople in TAFEs or individualised vocationally-focused university courses.

How do we best utilise the capacity of the arts to engage young people and ensure they become decent and productive citizens?

From Lake Ballard in remote WA to Vercorin in Switzerland, small towns get big change when they engage with arts.

Theatre education doesn’t just happen in drama courses. Beyond NIDA, VCA and WAAPA, there is plenty of on-campus opportunity.

Northern Rivers towns like Byron Bay and Lismore have long been a magnet for artists escaping the city but they often leave funding opportunity behind.

Art copyright laws are not working for Indigenous cultural property: we need special legislation.

On the eve of the inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, the convenor asks why we live with the constant beat of the celebrity metronome.

Audiences used to be passive recipients of creativity. Now they are increasingly part of the creative process.

Australia's best-known playwright attacks the squeeze on creative arts education.

Using painting as a research tool has enabled a new understanding of creativity in cancer support, pharmacy and Aboriginal health.

Arts festivals make politicians feel good but they depress independent artists who don't fit the festival mode.

The artistic director of Parramasala denies criticism it has failed to connect with the local South Asian community.

Lip service to Asian-Australia cultural links is not followed through at the South Asian Arts Festival.