Visual Arts
Visual arts sidelined by festival culture
As "festivalisation" takes over our cities, one thing is increasingly left off the programing list – and that is the…
Museum as a force for cultural revival
Museums do not just live in the past. Nurturing the continuing culture of the local Aboriginal community is an inherent…
Inspire60: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
VIDEO: Family and finding one’s identity are what inspires Perth artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah.
Vale Leonard French
The Australian artist, who made the world’s largest stained glass ceiling, has died aged 88.
Australia loses a great arts patron
Philanthropist and former chairman of Australia’s media dynasty, Fairfax & Sons, James Fairfax leaves a great legacy for the arts.
Sector shock as regional arts body closes
Regional and remote artists and companies will suffer with the closure of an organisation which has supported them for over…
Quilty on hate, art and the death penalty
An exhibition includes the last paintings made by Myuran Sukumaran before his execution in a message against the death penalty…
Vernon Ah Kee: Not an animal or a plant
While this exhibition lands a political wallop, it also raises questions more broadly of critical engagement through contemporary art.
10 ways to work smarter, not harder this year
Working hard is not the same as being effective. Reorient your work style and you can have both ease and…
Life drawing modelling, undressed
Erections, snootiness and perverts: we investigate the misconceptions about being a life drawing model.