Trends and Analysis
Finding the best creative partnerships
The Creative Partnerships Awards are looking for exemplary marriages between the cultural, philanthropic and business sectors.
Why artists are the vanguard of the new workforce
Far from living a ‘Peter Pan lifestyle’, artists hold the key to the creative values which are the future of…
Come our end: closing the gap with Indigenous culture
Closing the Gap shouldn't mean bringing Aboriginal Australians to some white standard but bringing all Australians to an understanding of…
The Poetry of the Present
Read the full 2017 Peggy Glanville Hicks address on how musicians help us find new meaning in our present.
Beyond the unicorn future
The idea of a single future is as mythical as a unicorn. We need to be ready for a complex…
Counter-urban movement city arts doesn't see
The absence of major performing arts companies at the key regional arts conference indicates a failure to see the vitality…
Can the arts free itself from Stockholm Syndrome?
The arts bureaucracy has captured artists with its own mechanistic view of the world. Like David Bowie and Madonna we…
Live art for the virtual generation
In a world where you can be simultaneously on a suburban bus and at a concert half a world away,…
So Donald Trump makes you laugh..
The Republican nominee joins a long line of public figures whose big personalities make them gift fodder for satirists.
Lionel Shriver and your inner bigot
Political correctness isn't strangling creativity – it's just inviting us to be aware of our inner bigot.