Visual Arts

Opportunity for emerging and early career practitioners
Here’s a great opportunity for professional development. But why aren't designers, artisans, filmmakers and writers applying?

5 mistakes that could get your application rejected
Sometimes you only get one chance to make the right impression.

Will the arts ever have a shorter working week?
A shorter working week is not to be sniffed at, even in the arts where many of us already eschew…

Fragile Matter
A sweaty, thumping collaboration between Tasmania’s Tasdance and Greece’s Jukstapoz for Ten Days on the Island.

Forming in the Pupil of an Eye – The Kochi-Muziris Biennale
A Biennale like no other.

Plastic replicas make an art form of the copy
Artist Sarah Goffman reuses plastic in a clever pun that references history, while criticising contemporary society.

Trump plans to cancel US arts endowment
President Trump's FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes the elimination of the US National Endowment for the Arts, which funds community…

Beating the 17-second trap
The psychological benefits of art work best when audiences slow down but galleries struggle to stop the rush.

How colour blind artists cope
Good eyesight might seem to be a prerequisite for an artists but from Impressionist Edgar Degas to cyborg Neil Harbisson,…

5 misconceptions Melbourne Design Week will explode
Design is so much more than furniture and fashion – at its zenith it’s about changing the world.