Australia

Mary Poppins
Nostalgia goes a long way – so does a great cast.

Is this Australia’s most generous arts scholarship?
Being paid to study overseas is a dream – and two Australian artists are about to live it after winning…

Join your peers in supporting Australian arts
The Australia Council for the Arts is looking for arts peers to assess funding applications, particularly from remote and regional…

To Gen Y, feminism is the F-word
A new generation of young female artists is more influenced by the Spice Girls than Germaine Greer.

New vision for Boyd’s property
Six architects have been shortlisted to deliver a new Masterplan for Boyd’s iconic south coast property at Bundanon.

Calling for corpses
A new festival which aims to diminish our fears about death is seeking volunteers to lie in state and lead…

Artificial Intelligence smart enough to join the band
Imagine if you could jam with a computer that understood your musical strengths or take a life drawing class with…

Anywhere goes everywhere
The Anywhere Theatre Festival has ambitious plans for 2017, expanding from a single city to an entire state.

Making discomfort comfortable
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable, wrote Lucian Freud. But delivering effective discomfort is…

Why now is the right time to insure yourself
We insure our cars, our homes, our computers and even our pets, so why don’t Australian workers insure their lives…