Opinions & Analysis
A new campaign for the arts
Conflict over the roles of the Australia Council and the Ministry don't address the real policy failures so #freethearts is…
Craft artists will be forced to leave NSW
If planned changes go ahead it will be almost impossible to become a silver, glass or ceramic artist in NSW.
A challenge to arts presenters: dig where you stand
Imagine if regional presenters cared half as much for the artists who live in their own towns as they do…
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…