Visual Arts

Hot in the Centre: Alice Desert Festival
The multi-arts Alice Desert Festival celebrates the diversity of the Red Centre.

Perth’s Fringe World posts $70.9 million economic impact
In just four years the festival has become a major event in the West Australian capital, attracting an audience of…

Who'd have thought a police band was hot contemporary art?
Michel Tuffery's large-scale performative installation opens up the "memory banks" on Samoa's German colonial history.

On the move: latest appointments
A new Festival Director and co-CEO has been appointed at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and a new Concertmaster at WASO.

Queensland Budget delivers $173 million for the arts
Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said her Government ‘has vowed to return [the] arts back to its rightful place’.

In defence of day jobs
Cleaning chicken legs or delivering pizzas because you can't afford to be a full-time creative might be a blessing in…

2015 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
Calling all artists age 18-30 exploring the medium of painting, printing or drawing: entries close for the Lloyd Rees Memorial…

Masterpieces can tell you how to de-stress in the office
You are not alone feeling stressed in today's workplace, so why not turn our great Masterpieces for tips to smoothing…

2015 MPavilion unveiled
Award-winning British architect reveals design for events pavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.

Unveiled: Latest program announcements
Dangerous ideas, a musical celebration of Hitchcock, the return of MIFF, and more.