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Get em young and reap the long-term outcomes
Research has shown that over 60% of recent visitors attended cultural organisations as children, findings which have significant ramifications for…

Q&A with MCA’s Anna Davis
For Anna Davis curating is a kind of laboratory where you can test out ideas and discover new things. Having…

How fast cars and Sixties sculpture impact architecture
Award winning architect William Smart speaks with ArtsHub about what fuels good design, creative cities and Starchitect museums.

Working on Country – what does it mean?
The isolation of working in remote Australia is no drawback for a network of Indigenous art centres, which act as…

The compulsion to create: ‘outsider art’ at MONA’s Museum of Everything
Whatever box we put them in, and none is entirely satisfactory, the artists whose works currently adorn the walls of…

The other side - why the Powerhouse should move West
The City of Parramatta has released a Cultural Plan, of which the Powerhouse Museum is central, and is calling for…

Beating the 17-second trap
The psychological benefits of art work best when audiences slow down but galleries struggle to stop the rush.

Perhaps the arts can learn innovation from banking
The arts like to think of themselves as the heart of originality but perhaps we can learn from info tech,…

Kids teach museums how to play
Museum Victoria consulted more than 600 experts to create its new Children's Gallery and 500 of them were kids. Now…

Stop the simplification culture
In an age where ideas are reduced to 140 characters, culture makers need to reclaim complexity. Democracy may depend on…