Opinions & Analysis
Laying down fossils: writing the spinster's life
Donna Ward changes lanes from a career as a publisher to write a collection of meditations on living life alone.…
Cook through the eyes of five curators
How do you get your head around Captain Cook in the 21st century? We asked five curators how they've retold…
Amplifying First Nations women and women of colour
For International Women’s Day, Dr Jackie Bailey makes a call for a renewed commitment to supporting women in collective action.
Why arts organisations should pay their interns, even if they can't afford to
Within an arts organisation you are only as valuable as you are flexible and obedient.
Why Singapore is the new gateway for the Southeast Asian art scene
A community-focused approach to the arts in Singapore, coupled with unrest in Hong Kong, is shifting the focus of the…
Cultural leadership versus ‘business as usual’
There is now no government department with ‘arts’ in the title. Our political vanishing act should be a wakeup call…
Vandalism or renewal? Your response to re-painting Hosier Lane
Is the recent Hosier Lane attack vandalism or street art? You told us that it ranged from 'exactly what was…
The critic transformed into poet
As a literary journalist and critic, Thuy On was surprised to find she was compelled to write a book of…
Fair pay for artists in world-leading Irish policy
With their Paying the Artist policy, Ireland has a new groundbreaking approach that Australia could learn from, according to Esther…
I’m so sorry, Shirley Curly: an artist's mistaken identity
Artist Andrew Bairn tells hist story of knocking on the doors of the artistic establishment based on an extract from…