Performing Arts
From opera to fringe: challenging art form stereotypes
Opera is expensive and elitist, while 'fringe' is code for 'second rate'. Why to do such stereotypes endure?
A residency that is looking for maverick artists
Making art in a whisky distillery is far from your white-box residency. Glenfiddich is calling for visual artists to hit…
Awakening
Daniel Lammin and MUST pick and choose the most compelling moments of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening to play with.
Latest Australia Council round distributes $7.2 million
The February funding round supports projects by 158 individual artists, 36 groups of artists, and 76 arts organisations.
Budget aftershocks leave arts students high and dry
‘If you could just be a successful artist on the basis of graduating from tertiary study, everyone in the world…
How to pick the right art school for Honours
Here are four questions you need to ask when deciding what VA Honours program is right for you.
Why New York is interested in Toowoomba, and not Melbourne
A regional QLD city has caught the eye of New York curator–influencers, who value its cultural programing as being richer…
Money down and no real passion, says Shadow Minister
Victoria’s Shadow Minister for the Arts and Culture responds to the first year of the Creative State policy and the…
Are our museums in crisis?
For International Museums Day we examine the contemporary value of museums and harness the 2017 theme of saying the unspeakable.
Learning from our art mistakes
We learn by failing, but rarely talk about it. Here, artists and arts workers from diverse sectors reflect on what…