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New Russian legislation gags artists

New Russian legislation gags artists

Sarah Adams | 13 Jun 2013 In the wake of the Pussy Riot saga Russia has passed a bill to hand out jail terms to those who offend religious beliefs.
Random House UK gets into gaming

Random House UK gets into gaming

Mia Barry | 05 Jun 2013 With the launch of Robert Sherman’s Black Crown project, Random House UK has made the move into interactive gaming narratives.
$1.47 million for Murakami rights

$1.47 million for Murakami rights

Matt Millikan | 04 Jun 2013 Battle between South Korean publishers for Murakami rights makes conflict with North look like lunchtime argument.
Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes

Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes

Matt Millikan | 29 May 2013 Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
Painting is all in the mind

Painting is all in the mind

Esther Levy-Fenner | 27 May 2013 A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Six megatrends changing the arts

Six megatrends changing the arts

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

Get paid to write

Bernadette Schwerdt | 27 May 2013 Famous creatives from Danielle Steel to Peter Carey started their writing careers as copywriters – why not you?
The ugly truth about design

The ugly truth about design

Sarah Adams | 11 Jun 2013 There are not enough jobs for designers and that's only part of the problem for those wanting to make it in the industry.
What do editors want?

What do editors want?

Matt Millikan | 31 May 2013 Industry experts at the Emerging Writers' Festival reveal everything budding writers need to know when dealing with the gatekeepers of publishing.
The future of electronic art

The future of electronic art

Sarah Adams | 04 Jun 2013 Faster network speeds, accessible technology and wider acknowledgement have allowed electronic art to flourish.
Top Ten Trends at Cannes

Top Ten Trends at Cannes

Tarah Judah | 28 May 2013 Projecting its own obsession with materiality back into its auditoriums, Cannes Film Festival is chiefly concerned with artifice.
Why women should get the jobs

Why women should get the jobs

Susan Cartsonis | 17 Jun 2013 The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes

Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes

Matt Millikan | 29 May 2013 Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
Painting is all in the mind

Painting is all in the mind

Esther Levy-Fenner | 27 May 2013 A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Why women should get the jobs

Why women should get the jobs

Susan Cartsonis | 17 Jun 2013 The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
The ugly truth about design

The ugly truth about design

Sarah Adams | 11 Jun 2013 There are not enough jobs for designers and that's only part of the problem for those wanting to make it in the industry.
The future of electronic art

The future of electronic art

Sarah Adams | 04 Jun 2013 Faster network speeds, accessible technology and wider acknowledgement have allowed electronic art to flourish.
What do editors want?

What do editors want?

Matt Millikan | 31 May 2013 Industry experts at the Emerging Writers' Festival reveal everything budding writers need to know when dealing with the gatekeepers of publishing.
Top Ten Trends at Cannes

Top Ten Trends at Cannes

Tarah Judah | 28 May 2013 Projecting its own obsession with materiality back into its auditoriums, Cannes Film Festival is chiefly concerned with artifice.
Get paid to write

Get paid to write

Bernadette Schwerdt | 27 May 2013 Famous creatives from Danielle Steel to Peter Carey started their writing careers as copywriters – why not you?
Understanding creative collaboration

Understanding creative collaboration

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.
Six megatrends changing the arts

Six megatrends changing the arts

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

Paper finds a new niche

Emma Waterman | 14 May 2013 In the internet age, paper is becoming the province of obscure and eclectic niche subjects.
Getting paid when business goes bust

Getting paid when business goes bust

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.
Setting up in a new location

Setting up in a new location

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

How to really change the world

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.
From  writing copy to red carpet

From writing copy to red carpet

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.
Handing over the power of the pen

Handing over the power of the pen

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.
Amazon continues to cannibalise book industry

Amazon continues to cannibalise book industry

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.
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Sarah Ward | 29 May 2013 With 'The Great Gatsby', Luhrmann again tries to demonstrate depth beyond the luxurious façade.
Goodnight Mister Tom

Goodnight Mister Tom

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.
The Sessions

The Sessions

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

Capturing Flora

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.
Meanjin Volume 71 Number 3 Spring 2012

Meanjin Volume 71 Number 3 Spring 2012

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.
Swimming Home

Swimming Home

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.
Black Spring

Black Spring

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.
Overland #208 Spring 2012

Overland #208 Spring 2012

Oliver Mol | 09 Oct 2012 An exciting, informative journal that helps people decode the cultural and political discourses of the day.
dOCUMENTA (13)

dOCUMENTA (13)

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

A Separation

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.
Paradise Lost trilogy

Paradise Lost trilogy

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.
Richard III

Richard III

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

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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.
Macbeth

Macbeth

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.
Lullaby

Lullaby

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

Lord of the Flies

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.
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

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.
Cardenio

Cardenio

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”.
Little Eagles

Little Eagles

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.
You can make money online

You can make money online

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.
10 ways the arts is Changing

10 ways the arts is Changing

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.
Memo Justin Bieber: You owe Anne Frank a song

Memo Justin Bieber: You owe Anne Frank a song

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.
Reviewer versus reviewed

Reviewer versus reviewed

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.
Predicting your ticket sales

Predicting your ticket sales

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.
The art of dying well

The art of dying well

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’.
How art changes lives

How art changes lives

Brendan Hutchens | 25 Jan 2013 Becoming an artists can be a liberation, a catharsis, a source of meaning, life satisfaction or existential peace.
Are arts and sports equally good for you?

Are arts and sports equally good for you?

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.
10 arty websites to browse

10 arty websites to browse

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.
Why are we obsessed with celebrity?

Why are we obsessed with celebrity?

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.
Idiots of Ants

Idiots of Ants

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.
Catherine Alcorn: Singer, Actor, Producer

Catherine Alcorn: Singer, Actor, Producer

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".
Juliana Engberg

Juliana Engberg

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.
Megan Robson

Megan Robson

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

Sophie Forbat

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

Mike Shuttleworth

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.
Geordie Brookman

Geordie Brookman

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.
Richard Sowada

Richard Sowada

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

Mandi Keighran

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

Caroline Gates

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.
Amber McCulloch

Amber McCulloch

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

Alison Page

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

Yasmin Levy - Singer

artsHub | 07 Nov 2012 Yasmin Levy is an internationally acclaimed Israeli singer.
Aaron Seeto - Director of 4A

Aaron Seeto - Director of 4A

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

Robina Beard: performer, director and teacher

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.
Michael Jenn: Actor and Director

Michael Jenn: Actor and Director

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.
Jeremy ‘Yongurra’ Donovan

Jeremy ‘Yongurra’ Donovan

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

Stephen Lloyd Helper

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