Policy

On the move: latest appointments and resignations
Res Artis inaugural Executive Director announced and the Australia Council Board gets four new members.

Art you have to be sick to see
Public hospitals across Australia hold significant art collections putting some of our most significant artists to work as remote therapists.

Avoiding the over-promisers
Even the most successful crowdfunding campaigns can over-promise and under deliver.

Take your kids to work: family-friendly artists’ residencies
Many artists find a baby a hindrance to creative life but child-friendly residency programs help parents continue their creative careers.

Richard Flanagan: This is not my Australia
The Man Booker-winning author cited the leaked Nauru files as an answer to why writing matters.

NSW Government faces hammering over Powerhouse move
The plan to move the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta has provoked angry submissions to the NSW Inquiry into Museums and…

Eight tips to be future ready
Preparing for the future is a challenge facing organisations, institutions and individuals.

Artists campaign against racism
A group of arts and cultural leaders have called on Australia’s 45th Parliament to recommit to multiculturalism and diversity.

Copyright attack 'an unusually destructive force'
'Massive, unjustified, poorly researched and based on a remote and disconnected economic ideology of unusually destructive force.' That's what the…

Soft power: the arts of diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy helps advance Australian influence and fund global arts engagement but it also places political pressure on artists.