Opinions & Analysis
Trump's win shows why we need the arts
President Trump is not the outcome of voters' dispassionate assessment of self-interest. The arts and humanities teach us that is…
PM awards art that's meant to disturb him
The winner of the PM's literary awards is a novel that attacks the incarceration and abasement of vulnerable human beings.
Where art criticism goes wrong
Australia's art critics are mostly obsolete old fogies, gushing insiders or fence-sitting press-release summarisers.
Come our end: closing the gap with Indigenous culture
Closing the Gap shouldn't mean bringing Aboriginal Australians to some white standard but bringing all Australians to an understanding of…
The Poetry of the Present
Read the full 2017 Peggy Glanville Hicks address on how musicians help us find new meaning in our present.
Are you condescending to your audience?
The fashion for museum 'didactics', turns off art audiences who feel its patronising and moralistic undertones.
Can the arts free itself from Stockholm Syndrome?
The arts bureaucracy has captured artists with its own mechanistic view of the world. Like David Bowie and Madonna we…
Live art for the virtual generation
In a world where you can be simultaneously on a suburban bus and at a concert half a world away,…
Lionel Shriver and your inner bigot
Political correctness isn't strangling creativity – it's just inviting us to be aware of our inner bigot.
Why feminists should pay attention to Men's Rights Activists
Men's Rights activists claim feminists have too much power. Censoring them feeds into the anger and hate.