Covid-19

Death by a thousand cuts: Is Australia’s Craft and Design sector in peril?
Can the Craft and Design sector recover from the recent AusCo funding cuts on top of COVID-19 setbacks? We speak…

Finding the vocabulary for the future: Wesley Enoch on cultural leadership in crisis
In these pandemic times, cultural leadership is changing. Associate Professor Lizzie Muller sat down with Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch…

ICYMI: The week's top news in the arts
News on opportunities, watch to watch online this week, and all the positive news around the edges of COVID-19

Poll Results: Dealing with Centrelink ‘easy’ say majority of respondents
While many respondents have described applying for JobKeeper and JobSeeker support as difficult and confusing, the majority of participants in…

Play to your strengths: balancing homeschooling, work and creative practice
With her daughter E out of school with COVID-19, Dr Jackie Bailey found herself a homeschooling teacher juggling screentime and…

Teaching in isolation is intense: Four perspectives
A VFX animation teacher, primary school teacher and two academics talk about their experience and give tips for survival.

How culture can help you through dark times
Arts improve mental health. Megan Sheehy looks at ways the arts can help from virtual dance parties to everyday haiku.

Why Gladys needs to channel her inner Jacinda, as Arts Minister
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian recently took over the portfolio of Arts Minister with the resignation of Don Harwin, but does…

Five things about solitude: Reflections on self-isolating alone
While writing her book She I Dare Not Name: A Spinsters Meditation on Life, Donna Ward thought a lot about…

Digital art guide to beat coronavirus closures
From virtual exhibitions and livestreamed concerts to online art auctions, this is our guide to how art is going digital…