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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…

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.

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…

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…

Australia is shattering its creative future
The cutting of selected programs for VET help it is indicative of Australia's aversion to creative pursuits.

Baroque Brilliance
Lezhneva completely dazzled.

Arts education cuts leave sector fuming
Plans to cut the number of tertiary arts courses eligible for student loans from 70 to just 13 have shocked…

Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin proves that enthusiasm and onstage talent cannot spin gold from a poorly written book.

Confronting animal ethics through contemporary art
Have our galleries turned into menageries? Three exhibitions look at the place animals hold in contemporary art practice.