Deborah Stone | 29 Apr 2013 The arts are a powerful tool for social change but it takes more than good intentions for an arts project to really make a difference.

Deborah Stone | 19 May 2013 Great expectations and a virtual world are among the megatrends changing the role of museums and arts organisations.

Deborah Stone | 02 May 2013 Think people won’t pay for creative content because so much is available online for free? That’s not what the numbers show.

Matt Millikan | 22 May 2013 We talk to self-publishing authors who have sold over 1.5 millions books, signed publishing deals and generated additional income.

Karen Pearlman | 19 May 2013 From theatre to multimedia, collaboration is at the core of the creative process. The AFTRS journal Lumina is tackling the question of what it means to be engaged in a collaborative art form.

Emma Waterman | 14 May 2013 In the internet age, paper is becoming the province of obscure and eclectic niche subjects.

Peta Mayer | 06 May 2013 The mobility of an arts career is an advantage but re-establishing yourself can be another full-time job.

Deborah Stone | 20 May 2013 A massive cultural precinct development in Hong Kong promises jobs for museum, theatre and visual arts professionals.

Sarah Adams | 08 May 2013 Angry creditors who performed at Peats Ridge have joined the queue of artists asking what they can do when they don't get paid.

Vincent O’Donnell | 13 May 2013 A court case in the US is likely to have a big impact on contemporary artists working with collage,mash-ups and appropriation art.

Jerome Lee | 14 May 2013 'Somebody That I Used To Know' won two Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year but loses royalty money

Sarah Adams | 01 May 2013 A new law in the UK nicknamed the ‘Instagram act’ could see copyright lost on orphaned works.

Matt Millikan | 07 May 2013 Self-publishing service provider Author Solutions, owned by Penguin, sued by authors claiming it’s not an ‘independent publisher’.

Matt Millikan | 07 May 2013 There’s an old saying in the publishing industry, you can take the girl out of porn but you can’t take porn out of the pen.

Emma Waterman | 08 May 2013 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee has filed a law suit against the literary agent who duped her out of royalties.

Matt Millikan | 16 May 2013 Enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis calls out 'the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness'.

Matt Millikan | 16 May 2013 A year after removing digital rights management from its books sci-fi publisher Tor made a surprising announcement.

Jasmeet Sahi | 08 May 2013 Art classes changed the poorest scoring school in a US district to an exemplar of student improvement.

artsHub | 01 May 2013 Independent director Gus Van Sant has shot a sex scene test reel featuring Alex Pettyfer in a pitch to direct the film of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Emma Waterman | 15 May 2013 An Australia artist is turning medical necessity into creative opportunity, preparing to perform while on dialysis.

artsHub | 10 May 2013 Nazi themed German opera has been cancelled after audience members seek medical treatment.

Matt Millikan | 01 May 2013 It’s not just booksellers who have a bone to pick with Amazon as governments around the world investigate the tax practices of the e-retail giant.

artsHub | 16 May 2013 Unseen Dali works discovered by Bonhams' Impressionist and Modern Art are set to reach £1 million next month.

Emma Waterman | 10 May 2013 After nearly 50-years packed in boxes in a New York university , 119 pieces of Stolen Generation artwork return to Australia.

Richard Watts | 30 Apr 2013 Company behind The King's Speech to produce latest adaptation of 'the Scottish play'.

Matt Millikan | 03 May 2013 A new British literary longlist proves strong female authors aren’t just an Australian phenomenon.

Matt Millikan | 15 May 2013 It’s been a rollercoaster week for Barnes and Noble and their e-book business Nook Media.

Emma Waterman | 17 May 2013 Unseen documents Ernest Hemingway left at his Cuban estate have finally returned to America, more than 50 years after his death.

Emma Waterman | 09 May 2013 How does a treasured piece of 18th century art go from $90,000 to $0?

Matt Millikan | 29 Apr 2013 Graeme Simsion's debut novel The Rosie Project has not only been sold to over 30 countries, it’s also just had the screen rights optioned by Sony.

Matt Millikan | 22 May 2013 We talk to self-publishing authors who have sold over 1.5 millions books, signed publishing deals and generated additional income.

Karen Pearlman | 19 May 2013 From theatre to multimedia, collaboration is at the core of the creative process. The AFTRS journal Lumina is tackling the question of what it means to be engaged in a collaborative art form.

Deborah Stone | 19 May 2013 Great expectations and a virtual world are among the megatrends changing the role of museums and arts organisations.

Emma Waterman | 14 May 2013 In the internet age, paper is becoming the province of obscure and eclectic niche subjects.

Sarah Adams | 08 May 2013 Angry creditors who performed at Peats Ridge have joined the queue of artists asking what they can do when they don't get paid.

Peta Mayer | 06 May 2013 The mobility of an arts career is an advantage but re-establishing yourself can be another full-time job.

Deborah Stone | 29 Apr 2013 The arts are a powerful tool for social change but it takes more than good intentions for an arts project to really make a difference.

Matt Millikan | 19 Apr 2013 Award-winning playwright behind Jersey Boys and The Addams Family tells us what writers can learn from advertising, listening, exercise and gin.

Troy Nankervis | 16 Apr 2013 Playwrights are doing less writing and more listening as they rework true-life stories from gay parenting to race riots.

Troy Nankervis | 15 Apr 2013 A 30th birthday is a target many people set themselves for making it in an arts career. But is it realistic?

Anne Phillips | 09 Apr 2013 Cashed-up buyers are creating a heady market for some lesser known genres including Chinese porcelain, post-war painting and even kitsch.

Matt Millikan | 05 Apr 2013 Amazon swallowed up book enthusiast site Goodreads last week, raising concerns over the monolithic e-tailer’s ongoing monopolisation of book industry.

Leo Ribeiro | 05 Apr 2013 Funding spent on management can't be spent on creating work so why are arts administrators such a key part of the arts sector?

Deborah Stone | 04 Apr 2013 Where do you fit in the new class system? A British study has exposed the power of cultural capital to push arts lovers up the class ladder.

Sarah Adams | 02 Apr 2013 Why you should shed the starving artist mentality and turn your creativity into a start-up like these successful creative entrepreneurs.

Isabelle Laskari | 28 Mar 2013 An $800m arts and entertainment Freeport is set to open in Beijing in 2014.

Peta Mayer | 28 Mar 2013 So you think teaching is an easy stop-gap when you can't earn enough from your art. In fact, it's a whole new art form.

Matt Millikan | 25 Mar 2013 Graeme Simsion tells us about what he learned from screenwriting, writing humour, overcoming writer's block and inspiration from the world around you.

Isabelle Laskari | 15 Mar 2013 The Catholic Church finally has a new Pope, so we only thought it fitting to take a look at the ways in which this religious figure has been depicted throughout popular culture.

artsHub | 08 Mar 2013 YouTube has unveiled plans to launch its own subscription-based music streaming service later this year, leaving everyone wondering whether it can compete with music streaming giant Spotify.

Chris Ruen | 04 Mar 2013 Illegal downloads are starving creativity but attacking the consumer misses the point.

Isabelle Laskari | 01 Mar 2013 It’s been a long wait for David Bowie fans but early critical reviews of his latest album promise that it has been well worth the wait.

Sarah Adams | 01 Mar 2013 The invisible fourth wall between audiences and performers is made to be broken and theatre makers are doing just that. Not only are they interacting with the audience, they're inviting them inside th...

Isabelle Laskari | 22 Feb 2013 Amidst dangerous budget cuts, the opera world has united to conduct its very own international awards in the hopes of raising appreciation for the classic art form.

artsHub | 15 Feb 2013 The tense situation in Egypt is becoming a more and more common theme in the recent art of the country.

artsHub | 31 Jan 2013 The Global Repertoire Database seeks to provide a comprehensive representation and global ownership and control of musical works and is well on the way to becoming a reality.

Leo Ribeiro | 30 Jan 2013 What does it take for an understudy to steal the show? artsHub chats to Owain Arthur, the star of 'One Man, Two Guvnors' to find out.

Matt Millikan | 25 Jan 2013 The arts community in Hungary is suffering under conditions reminiscent of the Soviet-era.

Deborah Stone | 24 Jan 2013 Science has proven artists are more likely to face depression, especially serious bipolar illness. Is mental instability an inevitable price of creativity?

Lachlan Bryan | 18 Jan 2013 If you work in the arts, money is tight. You need to know when to save and when to spend on your music.

Taryn Pollock | 08 Apr 2013 A charming production based on Michelle Magorian’s popular children's novel, about the friendship between a London evacuee and an elderly recluse.

Deborah Stone | 07 Nov 2012 An exceptional film about an extraordinary relationship between a disabled man and his sex surrogate.

Gary Anderson | 29 Oct 2012 This superb book accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the largest of its kind ever undertaken, surveying 300 years of Australian botanical art.

Sonia Nair | 23 Oct 2012 An insightful, edifying and thoroughly captivating edition, in which issues crucial to the current political, economic and cultural climate are expounded upon with dexterity and wit.

Emma Perry | 16 Oct 2012 Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Deborah Levy’s novel is allusive and poetic; a literary gem that demands to be re-read in order to reward its reader with greater discoveries.

Sonia Nair | 12 Oct 2012 Every so often one chances upon a novel so uplifting, enthralling and immersive it becomes a struggle to put it down. Alison Croggon’s new novel is just such a book.

Oliver Mol | 09 Oct 2012 An exciting, informative journal that helps people decode the cultural and political discourses of the day.

Rennie McDougall | 20 Aug 2012 dOCUMENTA raises questions about what constitutes quality work.

Sarah Ward | 28 Feb 2012 HOPSCOTCH: From acclaimed Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi comes this faultless feature about a couple of the verge of divorce.

Sarah Ward | 27 Feb 2012 ACMI: Collectively, these three documentaries from co-directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky comprise a remarkable and moving study of murder and the miscarriage of justice.

Belinda Liversedge | 29 Jul 2011 THE OLD VIC: Sam Mendes directs Kevin Spacey in this bravura production of Shakespeare’s timeless play.

Geo Davila | 05 Jul 2011 Big, loud and hugely entertaining, the latest film in the blockbuster franchise more than makes up for its disappointing predecessor.

David Trennery | 30 Jun 2011 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: A warlord unrivalled on the battlefield, Macbeth is rewarded with rank and favour by a grateful king.

David Trennery | 30 Jun 2011 The Pit is transformed for a Duckie sleepover and a tranquil communal bedroom for an audience of dreamers.

David Trennery | 06 Jun 2011 OPEN AIR THEATRE: A laptop on the beach and rucksacks in the wreckage indicate that we are in the 21st century rather than Golding’s cold war world.

David Trennery | 06 Jun 2011 THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: Rupert Goold’s re-telling of 'The Merchant of Venice' has been shifted from the Adriatic to across the Atlantic and into present times.

David Trennery | 06 Jun 2011 SWAN THEATRE: 'Cardenio', in the revamped and restored Swan space at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon, is billed as “Shakespeare’s ‘Lost Play’ Re-Imagined”.

David Trennery | 09 May 2011 HAMPSTEAD THEATRE: The RSC kicked off its summer season with 'Little Eagles', a biography of Sergei Koryolov, Comrade Chief Designer of the Soviet space programme.

David Trennery | 12 Apr 2011 Review of The Tempest at the Silk Street Theatre

Tania Moore | 05 Apr 2011 Mary Kelly: Projects 1973-2010

David Trennery | 15 Mar 2011 What on Earth is Happening to Our Planet?

David Trennery | 22 Feb 2011 Robert Lepage superbly performs in this sequel to his 1985 breakthrough masterpiece The Dragons’ Trilogy, marking the return of that play’s central figure – artist Pierre Lamontagne – who resurfaces i...

Mariyon Slany | 16 Feb 2011 FRINGE WORLD: A comedic thesis in pop dialectics covering the great pairings from Brandy and Monica to Freddie Mercury and What’s-her-face Operabitch.

Angela Meredith | 28 Jan 2011 CAMPBELL WORKS: Romany gypsies settled on Hackney Marshes at the end of the 19th century – and Irish Travellers occupied a site between Mare Street and London Fields following the 1968 Caravan Sites A...

Wiktoria Kwasniak | 18 Nov 2010 CHRIS POTTER: A musical prodigy who had his first professional jazz gig at the age of 13, he was also the youngest recipient ever of the prestigious Danish Jazzpar Prize, which is one of the most resp...

Belinda Liversedge | 13 Nov 2010 THE TRAIN DRIVER: There’s a shock, or a twist at the end of the play, which I won’t spoil by revealing here. Suffice to say, it sent chills down the spine and was not expected. You cannot help but b...

Christine Pettman | 08 Nov 2010 BJORN VENO: His latest project entitled ‘Destroy Art’ has caused a stir in the contemporary art world and seen him escorted from the Tate Modern.

David Trennery | 05 Nov 2010 MACBETH: Song of the Goat seek to conjure a complete theatrical experience by engulfing Shakespeare’s text into ‘the ceaseless flow of energy of the actors in performance’.

Angela Meredith | 02 Nov 2010 BANG: In Holding a smile for as long as I am able (2010), the viewer witnesses the artist doing exactly that: eyes cast down, hair flopping, Linington has the concentration of a choirboy.

Duncan Robertson | 02 Nov 2010 FEAR OF QUEER: It was an ensemble piece where every player performed well and, although this review has only mentioned two for simplicity, everyone involved gave a fantastic performance. It was clear ...

Deborah Stone | 02 May 2013 Think people won’t pay for creative content because so much is available online for free? That’s not what the numbers show.

Sarah Adams | 17 Apr 2013 As online petition site Change.org hits 1 million users, we take a look at the way that the arts are petitioning for change.

Deborah Stone | 15 Apr 2013 Justin Bieber upset many people with a flippant comment at the Anne Frank House but he was much less offensive than the response of his ignorant fans.

Xavier Toby | 11 Apr 2013 Comedian and some time reviewer Xavier Toby gets a taste of his own medicine when his comedy shows are reviewed by others.

Valentina Maxwell-Tansley | 04 Apr 2013 Some Hollywood companies use geospatial modelling to predict ticket sales but there are simpler techniques for calculating your likely audience.

Jan Cornall | 03 Apr 2013 True travel writing needs fear and insecurity not just tourism tips.

David Throsby | 20 Feb 2013 Economists should understand the arts as the very centre of a production system that derives benefit from the things the arts do.

Deborah Stone | 15 Feb 2013 Research by Melbourne University released this week found arts organisations could do better when approaching trusts and foundations.

Don Aitkin | 14 Feb 2013 If we want more money for the arts, we need to create a public culture in which the arts have at least the same status in the political world as jobs.

Molly Carlile | 31 Jan 2013 ‘Deathtalker’ Molly Carlisle has discovered the arts are the perfect vehicle for enabling her clients to have a ‘good death’.

Brendan Hutchens | 25 Jan 2013 Becoming an artists can be a liberation, a catharsis, a source of meaning, life satisfaction or existential peace.

Sue Fisher | 17 Jan 2013 Arts organisations need to learn to articulate the benefits they can offer to business.

Julia Anwar McHenry & Christina R Davies | 10 Jan 2013 Research is attempting to compare the mental health and wellbeing outcomes of arts participants and spectators with sports participants and spectators.

Andrew Lewis | 10 Jan 2013 Prohibitive costs mean theatre companies often find it impossible to make a profit at WA’s State Theatre.

Robert Taylor | 10 Jan 2013 Old style hands-on training taught skills that young performing artists are not learning.

Sarah Adams | 21 Dec 2012 Not a fan of the great outdoors? Suffer from agoraphobia or severe introversion? Keep yourself occupied inside this summer with these 10 arty websites.

Deborah Stone | 28 Nov 2012 How do we best utilise the capacity of the arts to engage young people and ensure they become decent and productive citizens?

Sean Redmond | 21 Nov 2012 On the eve of the inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, the convenor asks why we live with the constant beat of the celebrity metronome.

John Rae | 15 Nov 2012 Using painting as a research tool has enabled a new understanding of creativity in cancer support, pharmacy and Aboriginal health.

Anna Kassulke | 05 Nov 2012 The myth that science is superior to arts would end if all higher education courses included a creative component.

Jo Verrent | 22 Oct 2012 Disabled people are still disadvantaged both as audiences and creatives.

Jo Caust | 17 Oct 2012 What makes a great arts leaders from Russian museums to Australian theatre to Finnish jazz?

Tania de Jong | 03 Oct 2012 Creativity isn’t just for the arts. The corporate world needs creative people more than ever.

Tamara Winikoff | 12 Sep 2012 What can Australia learn from the new UK arts funding environment?

Hubble Bubble | 02 Nov 2010 HUBBLE BUBBLE: For lovers of Jimi Hendrix, there are a few more days to see the exhibition of Hendrix artefacts at the Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London to commemorate the 40th anniversary ...

Hubble Bubble | 02 Nov 2010 HUBBLE BUBBLE: The Royal Court remains on a roll, as I reported recently, and I am drawn to its current offering, Tribes, by this quote from the Telegraph review: “Though this is a play about ...

CIHE | 15 Sep 2010 THE FUSE: In a new report, the Creative, Digital and Information Technology industries Task Force urges far-reaching changes to ensure UK is a leader in the creative, digital and information technolog...

Hubble Bubble | 13 Sep 2010 DIARY OF A RESTING THESPIAN PT1: The Old Vic is also distinguished by its management: the charismatic and brilliant Kevin Spacey, embraced by British theatre lovies for his bravura in taking over the ...

artsHub | 02 Apr 2013 After delighting Melbourne audiences in 2012, the multi-award winning band of buffoons, Idiots of Ants return with a new hour of fast- paced comedy.

artsHub | 08 Feb 2013 Sydney based singer/actor/producer Catherine has been wowing crowds both nationally and internationally for over 18 months with her smash hit cabaret "The Divine Miss Bette".

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Juliana Engberg is currently the Artistic Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and also the 19th Biennale of Sydney.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Megan Robson is Assistant Curatorial (Collections) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Sophie Forbat is the program manager of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Mike Shuttleworth is the Program Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival, host of the final chapter of the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 In 2010 Geordie was one of only five recipients of the British Council Realise Your Dream Award, which allowed him to embark upon a three month study of UK national theatre models.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Richard Sowada is the Head of Film Programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Mandi Keighran is a London-based freelance writer and editor specialising in design and architecture.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Caroline Gates is the Program Director at FBi Radio, an independent community radio station in Sydney that delivers the best new music, arts & culture.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Amber McCulloch is British Council Australia's Communications & Projects Manager.

artsHub | 29 Jan 2013 Alison Page was one of the talented Indigenous Australian creative professionals selected for ACCELERATE in 2012.

artsHub | 07 Nov 2012 Yasmin Levy is an internationally acclaimed Israeli singer.

artsHub | 01 Nov 2012 Aaron Seeto, Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is raising awareness of Asian-Australian art and culture.

artsHub | 19 Oct 2012 Accomplished theatre and television performer Robina Beard offers insight into the work and joy involved in maintaining a long and successful career in the arts.

artsHub | 13 Oct 2012 Joanne Trentini is a producer, writer, actor and founder of production company The Other One.

artsHub | 16 Aug 2012 Accomplished English actor and director, Michael Jenn, will return to WAAPA next month to direct Arthur Miller’s theatrical masterpiece, The Crucible.

artsHub | 05 Aug 2012 Ian Houston Sinclair is a playwright and theatre practitioner.

artsHub | 09 Jul 2012 Jeremy Donovan is national spokesperson for Generation One and ambassador for CREATivE CHANGE.

artsHub | 09 Jul 2012 Producer and director Stephen Lloyd Helper is known for creating and championing work of cultural diversity.

artsHub | 29 Jun 2012 Sebastian Goldspink is a Sydney based arts administrator, gallerist and artist.

artsHub | 23 Jun 2012 One of the foremost conductors of her generation, Sarah-Grace Williams has received acclaim from audiences and critics alike for her vibrant energy, outstanding musicianship and dynamic presence on th...

artsHub | 22 May 2012 Anna Lumb (AKA Anna The Pocket Rocket) is an international artist specialising in circus, theatre and comedy.

artsHub | 11 May 2012 Ralph Grayden is an ex-lawyer who, since 2003, has made a substantially less well remunerated living as a journalist and copywriter. He was born in regional Australia, spent four years in London, and ...

artsHub | 04 May 2012 Martin Langford Martin has published six books of poetry and sits on the judging panel for the 2012 Blake Poetry Prize.

artsHub | 09 Mar 2012 Singaporean/Australian singer-songwriter Yunyu has collaborated with NY Times #1 Bestselling Manga Artist and a Thai animation studio to produce a unique musical experience.

artsHub | 02 Mar 2012 After seeing Canadian film pro Marc Whiteway's video of artist Del Kathryn Barton we invited him for a chat.

media release | 17 Nov 2010 This production designer extraordinaire has created costumes, sets, installations and styled for various publications, events, productions and performers throughout the UK, Europe and America.

media release | 05 Oct 2010 Violinist, singer and composer Sophie Serafino fuses exotic, melodic and rhythmic sounds to create an utterly unique high-energy concert, leaving you transfixed from start to finish.

media release | 02 Sep 2010 Rachael Purdy is a self employed and freelance animator based in the UK who travels worldwide with her work.