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Visual arts sidelined by festival culture
As "festivalisation" takes over our cities, one thing is increasingly left off the programing list – and that is the…

How to build a culturally vibrant region
History, diversity, tree-changers and community leaders all play a role in enriching a region's arts ecology.

Museum as a force for cultural revival
Museums do not just live in the past. Nurturing the continuing culture of the local Aboriginal community is an inherent…

Rautavaara
Rautavaara’s works evoke a cultural and climatic sound-scape.

Vale Richard Divall
The Australian conductor, composer and musicologist died on Sunday aged 71, following a long battle with cancer.

Inspire60: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
VIDEO: Family and finding one’s identity are what inspires Perth artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah.

Vale Leonard French
The Australian artist, who made the world’s largest stained glass ceiling, has died aged 88.

Australia loses a great arts patron
Philanthropist and former chairman of Australia’s media dynasty, Fairfax & Sons, James Fairfax leaves a great legacy for the arts.

Sector shock as regional arts body closes
Regional and remote artists and companies will suffer with the closure of an organisation which has supported them for over…

Quilty on hate, art and the death penalty
An exhibition includes the last paintings made by Myuran Sukumaran before his execution in a message against the death penalty…