Museums
OPINION: Why Bill Henson did not 'cross the line'
Henson’s pictures are clearly works of art, whether you like them or not. Just as clearly, they are not pornographic.…
Kangaroo Teeterboard
Everyone wants to run away to the circus, right? Well now running away to the circus has become something more…
THEATRE REVIEW: Miss Julie, Vanilla Productions, Belvoir St Downstairs (Sydney)
Dark, gripping and intense, this production of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Vladislavs Nastavshevs, is given a powerhouse performance by…
REVIEW: <i>Silk + Sand</i>, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington
In 1993 Australian printmaker Michael Kempson met Chinese printmaker Su Xin Ping and expressed a wish to initiate a cultural…
The New Greek and Roman Galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
The new Greek and Roman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are the triumphant result of 15 years of…
Families are doing it for themselves, in art museums
Annette Welkamp examines the contemporary museum's focus on kids and families as a strategy for its long-term survival, and tells…
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art — Part 2
Global Feminisms situates itself within a sequence of art shows that have sought to correct the traditional Western prejudice against…
Trip report: The Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
"Electronic Literature? Is that like e-books?" you ask. Well, yes and no — in a sense, electronic writing has been…
Art and the Desert: Welcome to Dubai
Gordon Finlayson takes us on a journey to the rapidly growing arts scene in the United Arab Emirates in the…
Economists and the Arts
Arts Hub Australia — There is still a major task before the arts community to engage not only with government…