Australia

Design: it is a’changin’
Change is in the air, and some of the world’s leading designers and thinkers are converging to make it happen.

Perth Writers Festival: Day Two
Gaming experts suggest that while a novel is a monologue, a game has to be a dialogue that allows for…

Skin comes alive as tattoos rise as 3D landscapes
Alison Bennett’s photographs of tattoos and scars pop off the wall with the help of an app.

OzAsia Festival announces first major act for 2014
A dance drama from Adelaide’s sister state, the Chinese province of Shandong, will headline the festival in September.

A Black and White Night
Crowd behaviour is not an accident of large-scale sited events and White Night Melbourne could do better.

Artbank unveils its latest commission
Justene Williams references cubism, Soviet science fiction and atomic bomb propaganda.

Perth Writers Festival: Day Three
Stu 'Sutu' Campbell describes Indigenous rock art as ‘the world’s oldest comic books’.

Earth Hour
Here is poetry in its most refined, and erudite form - a literary digestive for life's pain.

The Secret Maker of the World
These stories are full of restraint and deftly paced, while the symmetry of the collection is masterful.

$10,000 fund for Gold Coast circus artists
The creative development fund is the latest initiative from the City of Gold Coast in the lead up to the…