Australia

Ugly Mugs: sex and violence on and off stage
A background on the St Kilda streets, has given a social worker, actress and playwright the content for a disturbingly…

Graduating artist hatches $35,000 prize
The level of her ambition was what won this graduating artist the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize.

Preview tour of Artbank’s new home
When Artbank lost its Rosebery home of 30 years to developers, it presented a silver lining in an unlikely find.

Activitating cities with art
Architects, artists and cultural planners at SAMAG mooted ways to better integrate art into urban planning.

Augmented Sculptures are a reality
Smart Phone Apps give sculptures life, linking artists from the US, China Germany and beyond with Port Macquarie locals.

Arts restructure mania
There is no evidence the bigger is better in arts management so why the pressure to collapse functioning arts organisations?

Australia loses a great administrator to Toronto
Biennale of Sydney confirms Chief Executive Officer is moving on.

Melbourne poet wins the 2014 Porter Prize
Named after the Australian-born, British-based poet and translator, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize is now in its 10th year.

Why don't our audiences look like a train stop?
We will know we are really tapping culturally diverse audiences when the range of faces truly reflects the population.

White Face
Through its vivid bodily movements and daring originality, White Face deliberately blurs the boundaries between black and white.