Opinions & Analysis
Is Transfield Holdings culpable?
Transfield Holdings is not the company that runs asylum seeker detention centres but that doesn't invalidate the boycott.
Enabling learning for art gallery visitors
Audiences need to feel safe to have their ideas disrupted if they are to learn in an art gallery.
Despite boycott, Biennale should honour its relationship with Transfield
Individual artists' ethical objections to Transfield should not derail the Biennale's important arts/business partnership.
Cultural appropriation is rehashed colonialism
A Melbourne Now exhibit trivializes and fetishizes the culture from which it borrows.
Designers can't expect brand loyalty
Turns out we’re floozies when it comes to brands, which is great for the consumer but difficult for designers.
Can site specific work tour?
Three curators and five artists sounds complicated enough, now tour a site-specific work to three cities.
A Black and White Night
Crowd behaviour is not an accident of large-scale sited events and White Night Melbourne could do better.
Rethinking arts on television
What should arts content look like on television, specifically content transmitted by a national broadcaster?
Google Play
Google's entry into the streaming marketplace won't be worth much but it will be good for musicians.
Against another arts ghetto
Another arts precinct may deliver only a dismal Docklands disconnected from the natural vitality of the city.