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Why your brain wants you knitting
Albert Einstein, Julia Gillard, Eleanor Roosevelt and Christopher Walken all knitted. Maybe that's why they were more successful than you.

Millennials don’t want to call themselves philanthropists
Engaging donors means understanding their motivations and many of the new generation do not want to see themselves simply as…

Boardroom collecting beyond gilt framed portraits
Just when we thought corporate collections were dead, a bank has created a new model for supporting emerging artists.

10 books that white people should read
This week's Man Booker winner, Paul Beatty's The Sellout, is a landmark work on race. But it's not the only…

Be more productive. Sleep.
Long hours and never ending To Do lists often means our sleep is the first thing to be compromised. But…

Why we need quotas in the arts
There is increasing pressure for quotas for women, culturally diverse and disabled actors and creatives to improve diversity on our…

Artificial Intelligence smart enough to join the band
Imagine if you could jam with a computer that understood your musical strengths or take a life drawing class with…

Making discomfort comfortable
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable, wrote Lucian Freud. But delivering effective discomfort is…

On thin ice: making a new art form
What happens when the art form you love is cringe-worthy? You remake it in a contemporary manner.

9 Cs of arts professional development
Looking for a structure to develop yourself or your team? Fringe Creative Director & CEO Simon Abrahams has developed his…