Matt Millikan | 14 Jun 2013
International expert on audience, innovation, entrepreneurship and visual journalism, Erin Polgreen shares her secrets.
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.
Deborah Stone | 12 Jun 2013
The online art auction business Paddle8 has raised $6 million from a group of high profile arts investors.
Deborah Stone | 11 Jun 2013
Tired of limited opportunities, two musicians have put private money on the line to found an international online competition.
Matt Millikan | 11 Jun 2013
Bowker Market Research reports that self-published e-books account for 12% of the entire digital publishing market.
Jerome Lee | 11 Jun 2013
Minchin’s interpretation of the Roald Dahl classic for the RSC was nominated for 12 Tony awards and won four of them.
Matt Millikan | 11 Jun 2013
More than just the money, case tests limits of creative expression.
Matt Millikan | 06 Jun 2013
Two Australian creatives rewriting digital destiny with a novel approach that foresees a publishing future that’s not all e-books.
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.
Matt Millikan | 04 Jun 2013
Battle between South Korean publishers for Murakami rights makes conflict with North look like lunchtime argument.
Stephanie Campisi | 03 Jun 2013
Technology is reviving an old-fashioned storytelling parlour as a gallery project, fan-fic, and now an app.
Esther Levy-Fenner | 03 Jun 2013
Banners and posters implicating Prince Harry by Jeremy Deller have been withdrawn from the Venice Biennale by British Council.
Sarah Adams | 30 May 2013
The Venice Biennale features 88 countries and 150 artists. We’ve picked some of the best for this visual guide.
artsHub | 29 May 2013
The British Council’s Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme is now open for talented Indigenous Australian creatives
Matt Millikan | 29 May 2013
Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
Matt Millikan | 28 May 2013
It’s a price that only JK Rowling could afford to pay.
Esther Levy-Fenner | 27 May 2013
A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Jess Cole | 24 May 2013
New York-based Lydia Davis has been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013.
Matt Millikan | 23 May 2013
If anyone is going to sing the praises of the e-reader it's an airline right? Well, don't be so sure.
Deborah Stone | 20 May 2013
A massive cultural precinct development in Hong Kong promises jobs for museum, theatre and visual arts professionals.
Deborah Stone | 19 May 2013
Great expectations and a virtual world are among the megatrends changing the role of museums and arts organisations.
Bernadette Schwerdt | 27 May 2013
Famous creatives from Danielle Steel to Peter Carey started their writing careers as copywriters – why not you?
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.
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.
Deborah Stone | 20 May 2013
A massive cultural precinct development in Hong Kong promises jobs for museum, theatre and visual arts professionals.
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.
Sarah Adams | 04 Jun 2013
Faster network speeds, accessible technology and wider acknowledgement have allowed electronic art to flourish.
Susan Cairns | 11 Jun 2013
If an algorithm can construct a narrative, what is the role for a museum or gallery?
Tarah Judah | 28 May 2013
Projecting its own obsession with materiality back into its auditoriums, Cannes Film Festival is chiefly concerned with artifice.
Susan Cartsonis | 17 Jun 2013
The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
Sarah Adams | 30 May 2013
The Venice Biennale features 88 countries and 150 artists. We’ve picked some of the best for this visual guide.
Matt Millikan | 29 May 2013
Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
artsHub | 29 May 2013
The British Council’s Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme is now open for talented Indigenous Australian creatives
Matt Millikan | 06 Jun 2013
Two Australian creatives rewriting digital destiny with a novel approach that foresees a publishing future that’s not all e-books.
Matt Millikan | 14 Jun 2013
International expert on audience, innovation, entrepreneurship and visual journalism, Erin Polgreen shares her secrets.
Bill Aitchison | 05 Jun 2013
A performance artist challenges a grant-maker’s decision and wins.
Deborah Stone | 11 Jun 2013
Tired of limited opportunities, two musicians have put private money on the line to found an international online competition.
Esther Levy-Fenner | 27 May 2013
A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Matt Millikan | 11 Jun 2013
Bowker Market Research reports that self-published e-books account for 12% of the entire digital publishing market.
Matt Millikan | 11 Jun 2013
More than just the money, case tests limits of creative expression.
Susan Cartsonis | 17 Jun 2013
The executive behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis says giving women more film jobs makes financial sense.
Susan Cairns | 11 Jun 2013
If an algorithm can construct a narrative, what is the role for a museum or gallery?
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.
Sarah Adams | 04 Jun 2013
Faster network speeds, accessible technology and wider acknowledgement have allowed electronic art to flourish.
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.
Tarah Judah | 28 May 2013
Projecting its own obsession with materiality back into its auditoriums, Cannes Film Festival is chiefly concerned with artifice.
Bernadette Schwerdt | 27 May 2013
Famous creatives from Danielle Steel to Peter Carey started their writing careers as copywriters – why not you?
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?
Sarah Ward | 29 May 2013
With 'The Great Gatsby', Luhrmann again tries to demonstrate depth beyond the luxurious façade.
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
Bill Aitchison | 05 Jun 2013
A performance artist challenges a grant-maker’s decision and wins.
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.
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.