Visual Arts

Federal budget 2018-19 offers paltry support for the arts
Instead of undoing damage inflicted on the Australia Council, Scott Morrison’s latest budget instead splurges almost $50m to celebrate the…

Review: Drawings and Correspondence by Tom Nicholson at IMA Brisbane
An important exhibition that draws upon little known yet epic encounters, intersections and histories that have surprising resonances for Australians.

Applause: latest success stories
Sculpture Interloop wins award; Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize winner announced; ABIA winners revealed and more.

Multi-million dollar boost for contemporary music
WA’s McGowan Labor Government has announced a $3 million fund to support the state’s bands and musicians as part of…

'Grow your culture – make it big enough to support all of you'
Curators, arts administrators and artists share their strategies for improving diversity in the art world.

Jamie Preisz awarded Archibald Packing Room Prize for portrait of Jimmy Barnes
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced the winner of the 2018 Packing Room Prize.

Review: 2018 Varuna Sydney Writers’ Festival
Diverse, fresh, and vivid voices animate this extraordinary writers’ festival.

10,000 native plants to feature at 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
A multi-sensory living installation displaying endangered Indigenous Australian grassland species will interrogate architecture’s responsibility to environmental rehabilitation.

The necessary discomfort in the labour of making art
Three artists discuss the physical and emotional labours of their work.

Fringe World moves to assist artists after JumpClimb fiasco
With artists owed $200,000 following the collapse of independent event management company, JumpClimb, Fringe World is taking action to assist.