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Artists get creative with crowd-funding rewards
Long before the project launches, fundraising requires creative thinking.

Public funding makes arts ‘safe and well-behaved’
Edinburgh Fringe Festival director Mark Ravenhill bites the hand that feeds him with confronting questions about arts funding.

Marilyn Rowe to retire as director of the Australian Ballet School
Marilyn Rowe will retire as Director of the Australian Ballet School at the end of next year, ending an era…

Final call for entries for Stencil Art Prize
Entries for the $2000 Stencil Art Prize, formerly the Australian Stencil Art Prize, close on 15 August 2013.

Australia’s richest painting prize an open book
A painted sculptural work has been announced as the unexpected winner of the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.

Sydney Dance Company sweeps awards
The Sydney Dance Company cleaned up at the Australian Dance Awards ceremony on Monday night.

Entries for Moran Prizes now open
The Moran Portrait Prize and the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize are now accepting entries.

John Cato remembered in prints, text and DVD at BIFB
Melbourne photographer and teacher John Cato is honoured with a retrospective exhibition, book launch and DVD at BIFB’13.

Ballarat venues become pop-up Fringe galleries for BIFB
Sixty-seven venues become city-wide pop-up galleries for the open-entry Fringe Program at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Portfolio Reviews match photographers with professionals at BIFB
Photographers can have their work reviewed one on one with a professional of their choice in a series of 20-minute…