Grants and Funding
Move over majors, independents do more with less
Majors gets more funding but dollar for dollar, independent theatre provides hundreds more works and 26 times the ticket sales.
Biennale ducks discussion of Transfield controversy
The Biennale of Sydney has backtracked on its offer of a public discussion over the Transfield sponsorship issue.
Kids are good programming
AGNSW and QAGOMA both turned their attention this week to kids programming with the announcement of major sponsored projects.
Westfield partners with Australian designers
The retail empire will sponsor three Australian designers at Australian Fashion Week.
Murder and imagination: Attenborough on Macbeth
Queensland's Super Star Fund is delivering a new prize this week, Macbeth, directed by British darling Michael Attenborough.
NGA's Shiva faces the cameras
The National Gallery's farewell to Ron Radford will be overshadowed by a television investigation of his least glorious hour.
Surreal sensibilities on display
Grant allows exhibition of fascinating Melbourne artist at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.
'Pesky artists' talk back to Brandis on Biennale
The artists behind the Biennale boycott say the Government has no right to cut funding over a political issue.
Overdraw: A graffiti funding hoax
Graffiti artist CDH has hoaxed the City of Melbourne, with a grant application intended to parody their public art program.…
'If the Sydney Biennale doesn’t need Transfield’s money, why should they be asking for ours?'
The full text of the letter Minister for the Arts Brandis sent the Australia Council warning it off funding the…