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Decline in operational funding poses risk to contemporary artistic practice
NAVA's message is clear: ‘stop treating art and culture as expendable and start recognising their essential role in the stimulation…

Curatoriums are the new programming superpower
As the Biennale of Sydney unveils its new curatorium, we look at shifting exhibition models in a post-pandemic rethink, as…

The turgid trajectory of sculpture in education (from the archives)
To celebrate International Sculpture Day on 24 April, we revisit this 2018 article that asks whether our education system is…

Don't ditch the digital
Keeping and improving some of our new digital and hybrid work practices simply makes good strategic and financial sense, says…

Harmonisation, complexity and change: exploring the National Performing Arts Touring Scan
Previous reports into the national touring ecology released in 2005 and 2011 effectively came to naught, so what makes the…

Visual storytelling and the case for radical empathy
First Nations artist Hayley Millar Baker foregrounds herself as a storyteller, blurring the formal conventions of photography to construct probing…

When you've still got it at 100: Q&A with artist Guy Warren
The centenarian puts his longevity down to a whiskey every night, just getting on with it, and not listening too…

ArtsHub previews $60.5M HOTA Gallery ahead of May opening
The Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast is surprising, to say the least. Its bold, brash façade leads…

Rediscovering the joys of touring during COVID
Eva Di Cesare, Artistic Director of Monkey Baa Theatre Company, tells us how the pandemic has changed the company’s approach…

Landing in lockdown: how immigration drives artistic adaptation
Three Australian artists explain how they have adapted their practices since arriving in the UK in the midst of the…