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ArtsHub turns 25: a quarter-century of championing the arts

How a moment of frustration led to one of Australia’s most trusted and long-running arts publications.

Image: Dan Farrell on Unsplash.
Features

AusArt Day, first ever government-backed giving day for the arts: was it a success?

Billed as an important new initiative to boost arts philanthropy, Creative Australia’s inaugural AusArt Day achieved mixed results.

Joel Bray Dance's 'Garabari' features in the Blak Out program at Sydney Festival 2026.. Three First Nations people, two male-presenting and one female-presenting, pose dramatically on a smoky, yellow-lit back-lit stage. Sydney Festival 2026.
Features

Sydney Festival 2026 celebrates 50 years of helping shape the city’s culture

Festival Director Kris Nelson discusses his inaugural Sydney Festival program, and looks to the future while celebrating the festival’s legacy.

Monica Davidson and the C+B team, who have helped deliver Business Connect. Photo: Kate Williams.
Features

NSW Treasury pulls plug on creative Business Connect mentorship program

Despite outstanding results, a unique New South Wales program supporting creative businesses and freelancers is being wound up. ArtsHub speaks…

Company members of 'Gatz' by the American Repertory Theatre; the production can be seen at Adelaide Festival 2026. The photo shows six performers seated and standing around an office table as playing cards rain down around them.
Features

Adelaide Festival 2026: Matthew Lutton reveals his inaugural program

Lutton discusses the creative shift required in programming a festival instead of a theatre company, and why he has not…

Boorloo Contemporary at East Perth Power Station (seen here in 2025) returns for Perth Festival 2026. An industrial-looking building lit up by brightly coloured projects, and photographed from the air at night; a large crowd is gathered in the building's expansive courtyard.
Interviews

Perth Festival 2026 makes the most of its city’s cultural infrastructure shortage

Artistic Director Anna Reece reveals how her second Perth Festival takes over the city’s public and private spaces.

youth arts: a photo of two teenage girls standing in an art gallery space looking at two contemporary art paintings that hang on two different walls of the gallery.
Features

Government policy champions youth arts, so why is funding slipping?

The benefits for young people are well documented, but leaders in youth arts say greater commitment is needed.

Image of a road with a single person walking down it and it is covered with sand. Superannuation
Features

Strangled by superannuation: I'm a struggling artist, but I have to pay super

Sole trader creatives get the benefit of superannuation on the one hand, but are strangled by mandatory payments on the…

Corporate arts partnership dilemmas: a close up of someone's hand holding a gold pen over a desk about to sign a contract.
Features

Leaked CEO email reveals hazards of arts leaders in corporate partnership dilemmas

A sector CEO’s attempt to reassure staff amid corporate partnership-related backlash has sparked questions around best practice in these situations.

Women with dark hair wearing beige dress standing in front of black and white photographic portrait. Tina Arena
Features

In conversation with Tina Arena: 50 years on from her Young Talent Time debut

Tina Arena shares career wisdoms and warnings, on the occasion of her celebratory portrait commission for the National Portrait Gallery.

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