Opinions & Analysis

Social media: A new stage for the Arts
A strategic approach to social media marketing and online engagement can increase performance in your arts organisation.

Brandis refuses to protect exploited Indigenous artists
Abuses continue but the Government refuses to protect artists through a mandatory Indigenous Art Code.

Why you should try improv
Improvisation skills can deliver work by improving audition performance and providing a strong background for corporate training.

The myth, or reality, of writer's block
Writer’s block has little to do with procrastination, or laziness. Writer Lee Kofman inspects the phenomenon and shares her painful…

Want to smash the glass ceiling? It’s time for some DIY.
There is a great deal woman can do to address the gender disparity in museum leadership.

Is private funding making artists scared?
As government funding gives way to more private sponsorship, accountability is being replaced by pressure for arts companies to reflect…

Arts education: an antidote to cat memes
Will future historians view the internet as heralding a new Dark Age, a time of lost opportunity and widespread cultural…

You are the brand
In the age where celebrity and even notoriety are revered, one of the skills that artists are encouraged to assiduously…

Collage as child pornography
Rowena Orr SC, who appeared, with Neil Clelland QC, for Paul Yore in his 2014 fight against child pornography charges…

On judging art prizes (it’s all subjective, isn’t it?)
If all art is subjective, how can anyone judge the merit of works entered in a visual art prize?