Deborah Stone | 19 May 2013
The Government has amended the Australia Council Bill meeting concerns it failed to protect freedom, community or Indigenous art.
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.
artsHub | 17 May 2013
The people have had their say, architects have been honoured, shortlists were revealed, and comedians commended.
artsHub | 17 May 2013
There are new CEOs and festival directors, as well as curatorial and gallery appointments this week.
Deborah Stone | 17 May 2013
A month after their workshop was sold from under them, Tasmanian makers have entered survival negotiations.
Matt Millikan | 17 May 2013
Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria has announced the three manuscripts in the running for the $15,000 Premier’s Award.
Emma Waterman | 16 May 2013
Need a helping hand, turning your theatrical dreams into a reality? La Boite Indie has the solution.
David Tiley | 16 May 2013
How does top Hollywood creature design make the Life of Pi tiger real and the Avatar banshees so terrifyingly beautiful?
Stephanie Hume | 16 May 2013
We've picked out five of the best from Australia's largest photography festival.
Deborah Stone | 16 May 2013
With $100,000 for established artists and $60,000 for early career artists, these Creative Fellowship winners have struck gold.
Emma Waterman | 16 May 2013
An Australian woman puts truth in notorious artist, Tracey Emin’s words, ‘art is for everyone, not just elite'.
Emma Waterman | 16 May 2013
Digital is not the Messiah that will save dying Indigenous language says academic.
Matt Millikan | 16 May 2013
Enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis calls out 'the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness'.
Emma Waterman | 16 May 2013
You've probably seen her on your television at home, but now Asher Keddie will take her place in Australia’s finest art galleries.
artsHub | 16 May 2013
Nominations have opened for the 2013 Deadly Awards, recognising the best in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent from 2012
artsHub | 16 May 2013
Arts Minister Tony Burke has announced Tony Grybowski as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Council.
artsHub | 16 May 2013
Unseen Dali works discovered by Bonhams' Impressionist and Modern Art are set to reach £1 million next month.
Matt Millikan | 16 May 2013
A year after removing digital rights management from its books sci-fi publisher Tor made a surprising announcement.
artsHub | 15 May 2013
Winners of the Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards include a laboratory, a house and a landmark tower.
Matt Millikan | 15 May 2013
It’s been a rollercoaster week for Barnes and Noble and their e-book business Nook Media.
artsHub | 15 May 2013
The Sydney Comedy Festival (SCF) 2013 has announced this year's winners, which include comedians from all over the world.
Deborah Stone | 15 May 2013
Australia Ballet's 50th anniversary year saw a box office boom and philanthropy boost worth ovations for finance.
Matt Millikan | 15 May 2013
Move over Monopoly, there’s a new currency kid on the block that buys more than Mayfair.
artsHub | 15 May 2013
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has announced the appointment of Sophie Galaise as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Emma Waterman | 15 May 2013
A never-before-seen stage version of the cult 1990s novel, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, comes to Perth.
Mia Barry | 15 May 2013
Stories ranging from the trials and tribulations of modern day life in Nigeria to the 1970s socialist regime in Jamaica.
artsHub | 15 May 2013
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $800,000 in latest round of Cultural Fund, with significant funding for Indigenous artist
Emma Waterman | 15 May 2013
An Australia artist is turning medical necessity into creative opportunity, preparing to perform while on dialysis.
Emma Waterman | 15 May 2013
Adelaide Festival of Ideas has handpicked former Crikey editor, Sophie Black, to take the helm as director for 2013.
Deborah Stone | 15 May 2013
Eleven artists have been awarded Australia Council Creative Australia Fellowships, six extras as well as the original five.
Matt Millikan | 10 May 2013
artsHub investigates why a successful national organisation was quietly defunded, leaving state writers' centres reeling.
Ben Eltham | 15 May 2013
No news is good news as the Federal Budget locks in funding for Creative Australia.
Deborah Stone | 16 May 2013
The number of grants categories will be slashed from about 150 to no more than 12 under the vision of the new Australian Council CEO.
Emma Waterman | 13 May 2013
The show must go on but a world-first study is asking, at what price to performers' health?
Peta Mayer | 06 May 2013
The mobility of an arts career is an advantage but re-establishing yourself can be another full-time job.
Richard Watts | 07 May 2013
In the rush to embrace our Indigenous arts, is the unique culture of the Torres Strait being overlooked?
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.
Tamara Winikoff | 08 May 2013
How does an arts advocate successfully argue the case before the Senate Inquiry into the Australia Council Bill?
Richard Watts | 09 May 2013
The City of Melbourne’s draft budget for 2013-2014 includes an extra $1.2 million for the arts.
Deborah Stone | 14 May 2013
The Tax Office won't mind if you don't make money but you need to look like you tried.
Deborah Stone | 09 May 2013
The Art of Money is your new resource for everything related to making money and funding your work in the arts business.
Deborah Stone | 15 May 2013
Eleven artists have been awarded Australia Council Creative Australia Fellowships, six extras as well as the original five.
artsHub | 10 May 2013
The Senate inquiry has recommended upgrades on freedom of expression, Indigenous and community participation.
Deborah Stone | 08 May 2013
Eight new organisations are funded as Key Producers in community arts with projects for disabled, homeless & remote communities,
Ben Eltham | 08 May 2013
Pozible scores another world first, with matched funding from the Keir Foundation for Underbelly Arts
Paul Isbel | 13 May 2013
Book bums on seats with this telling advice from people who know what gets a show into schools.
Sarah Adams | 14 May 2013
The Victorian Coalition has announced major changes to its funding programs for arts organisations and individual artists.
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.
artsHub | 10 May 2013
Some pretty inspiring people took out the top jobs this week – could you be next?
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
Alex Prior | 08 May 2013
Behind the bold announcement of $29 million in new initiatives, are small cuts to contestable funding but big capital expenditure.
Stephanie Hume | 09 May 2013
A global movement is transforming the way galleries are experienced by the art appreciating public.
Matt Millikan | 07 May 2013
Self-publishing service provider Author Solutions, owned by Penguin, sued by authors claiming it’s not an ‘independent publisher’.
Lachlan Bryan | 15 May 2013
Many community stations will be forced to ‘turn-off’ their digital radio services soon, forcing listeners to turn to other sources
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.
artsHub | 16 May 2013
Arts Minister Tony Burke has announced Tony Grybowski as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Council.
Paul Isbel | 13 May 2013
A new alliance of senior arts educators wants politicians from all parties to make creative arts education a national priority.
Sarah Adams | 07 May 2013
$80,000 grants available for national one-off commission for visual arts organisations.
Sarah Adams | 08 May 2013
Online gallery Art Pharmacy helps remedy the lack of promotion for emerging artists with no gallery representation.
Deborah Stone | 16 May 2013
The number of grants categories will be slashed from about 150 to no more than 12 under the vision of the new Australian Council CEO.
Ben Eltham | 15 May 2013
No news is good news as the Federal Budget locks in funding for Creative Australia.
Emma Waterman | 14 May 2013
In the internet age, paper is becoming the province of obscure and eclectic niche subjects.
Paul Isbel | 13 May 2013
Bangarra resident composer David Page collaborated with electronic ace Paul Mac on the music for the company’s new production Blak.
Emma Waterman | 13 May 2013
The show must go on but a world-first study is asking, at what price to performers' health?
Matt Millikan | 10 May 2013
artsHub investigates why a successful national organisation was quietly defunded, leaving state writers' centres reeling.
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.
Richard Watts | 07 May 2013
In the rush to embrace our Indigenous arts, is the unique culture of the Torres Strait being overlooked?
Peta Mayer | 06 May 2013
The mobility of an arts career is an advantage but re-establishing yourself can be another full-time job.
Alex Prior | 01 May 2013
SBS Studio and Foxtel`s Local Production Fund will spend approximately $2 million per year on Australian arts programs with plans for more.
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 | 29 Apr 2013
Prostitute, drug addict and this week, a prisoner with a history of abuse: racist typecasting is dictating Shareena Clanton’s career.
Paul Isbel | 28 Apr 2013
Tasmania’s dark convict past is revived in a stage show that makes its debut at Dark Mofo 2013.
Jerome Lee | 26 Apr 2013
Artists are key beneficiaries of the Creating Spaces movement, which has established programs across the country.
Sarah Adams | 25 Apr 2013
A WA artist is taking legal action after his commission was cancelled for an off-the-shelf imported work almost twice the price.
Sarah Adams | 23 Apr 2013
Ben Quilty reveals the complex and profound role of a war artist, and tells us how his perceptions shifted after Afghanistan.
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.
Richard Watts | 19 Apr 2013
Queensland has had a massive coup securing an exclusive season of the Bolshoi Ballet but the tour is an expensive gamble.
Jasmeet Sahi | 17 Apr 2013
New research shows that watching live TV is not dead yet. Many of us still catch our favourite TV shows in telecast time.
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?
Deborah Stone | 09 Apr 2013
Arts industry leaders say the new Australia Council Act fails to protect freedom of expression and leaves key cultural sectors at risk.
Paul Isbel | 09 Apr 2013
The Federal Government has some homework to do before the education sector embraces Creative Australia.
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.
Andrew Einspruch | 08 Apr 2013
A city’s culture is its heart and soul. Take away its culture, and you’re left with everything that is boring in life.
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.
Andrew Einspruch | 03 Apr 2013
Artists take inspiration from anywhere, and create beauty, emotion and provocation. For Lemi Ponifasio that inspiration was frigate birds.
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.
Leon Marvell | 16 May 2013
The stalwarts of the European gothic tradition are returned home and given a revivifying jolt of cinematographic juice.
Nerida Dickinson | 16 May 2013
A Pakistani contribution to the Perth International Comedy Festival demonstrates the universal human experience and sense of humou
Sama Hugo-Giali | 15 May 2013
An in depth look at this important artist’s output, in particular it focuses on the paintings executed within his own personal oas
Sarah Ward | 15 May 2013
My Brother the Devil dissects the constitution of communities that spring up in the shadows of towering apartment blocks.
Nerida Dickinson | 14 May 2013
The Cathedral Concert Series continues to delight Perth audiences.
Reuben Liversidge | 14 May 2013
Making movies into musicals is all the rage. This oneis a fantastic example of how to successfully translate a film to the stage.
Colleen Edwards | 14 May 2013
In a non-descript house perched on the corner of their street live Mr and Mrs Jones; a typical 1950s couple – or are they?
Travis Englefield | 14 May 2013
Travel book, adventure memoir, epistolary paean to a friendship, every-man’s guide to cross-country cycling.
Nerida Dickinson | 14 May 2013
This stage adaptation has its merits, but will disappoint those looking for the strong messages of book or film.
Sarah Ward | 13 May 2013
Many films are laden with the label of "unique"; few actually earn it. This melancholic yet endearing tale of two parts does.
Sonia Nair | 13 May 2013
Hailed as Australia’s foremost literary journal on progressive culture, Overland #210 Autumn 2013 exemplifies this epithet again.
Nerissa Rowan | 13 May 2013
This retelling of Oscar Wilde’s short tale of love, knowledge and sacrifice has been created with a great deal of love and care.
Aleksia Barron | 10 May 2013
Nilaja Sun is simply electrifying in her one-woman show about teaching drama to some of America’s most underprivileged youth.
Nerida Dickinson | 10 May 2013
Black Swan serves up a classic rendition of a dramatic favourite.
Paul Nolan | 10 May 2013
Van Badham’s clever triptych for two characters is an incisive working of issues surrounding passion, love and infidelity.
Chloe Papas | 10 May 2013
One of those rare comedy shows that elicits laughs all the way through while also giving audiences something to think about.
Sarah Ward | 10 May 2013
The latest entry to this popular sci-fi franchise, once more directed by JJ Abrams, is palatable but perfunctory and predictable.
Heather Leviston | 08 May 2013
Under Marshall McGuire’s direction this program of works by by Claudio Monteverdi offered a truly memorable experience.
Sarah Ward | 08 May 2013
This stirring documentary follows Heba Afify, a budding online journalist reporting from the frontline of Egypt’s revolution.
Nerida Dickinson | 07 May 2013
It’s Perth’s turn to experience John Robertson’s viral video game sensation, now live with a confused audience.
Richard Watts | 07 May 2013
An imperfect but powerful exploration of contemporary Indigenous culture and identity.
Nerida Dickinson | 07 May 2013
Comedian Craig Hill kept the laughs flowing but such consummate control came at the expense of pushing his performance boundaries.
Mark Taylor | 07 May 2013
Excellent performances and the vibrant hits of the Big Band era can't save this revived tap musical from feeling dated and tired.
Gillian Wills | 07 May 2013
Intelligent and engaging theatre; one of the best QTC productions Brisbane audiences have encountered in recent years.
Lynne Lancaster | 06 May 2013
A sweet, heartwarming musical comedy, this show glows.
Tomas Boot | 06 May 2013
One of the Sydney Philharmonia Choir’s best concerts of late, and it’s a shame more people didn’t see it.
Tomas Boot | 06 May 2013
Conductor Thomas Ades got the best out of the Sydney Symphony at this brilliant concert, and one feels the Sydney Symphony got the best out of him.
Lynne Lancaster | 06 May 2013
This balletic triple bill provides a fascinating snapshot of the way choreography has developed and changed over the past 50 years.
Nicole Eckersley | 06 May 2013
A quiet, detailed and very human examination of an intense but unsustainable love affair.
Sarah Ward | 06 May 2013
Starring Juliane Köhler and Liv Ullman, this German-Norwegian is a compelling meditation on identity, morality and family.
Sarah Adams | 17 May 2013
We ship our food and our resources off all around the world, but when it comes to art are we an imports only country?
Graham Walne | 15 May 2013
Elizabethan audiences sat between the legs of those behind. Today’s audiences expect leg room and clear sight lines.
Lachlan Bryan | 15 May 2013
Many community stations will be forced to ‘turn-off’ their digital radio services soon, forcing listeners to turn to other sources
Ben Eltham | 13 May 2013
Content aggregators now have the power and access that used to belong to agents and artists' managers.
Sarah Adams | 10 May 2013
As baby boomers reach retirement age their love of Australia’s cultural institutions remains steadfast.
Vincent O’Donnell | 08 May 2013
Without a national identity function for the Australia Council will we sink into national dementia?
Tamara Winikoff | 08 May 2013
How does an arts advocate successfully argue the case before the Senate Inquiry into the Australia Council Bill?
Sean Smith | 08 May 2013
The arts and entertainment industry needs to create new marketing products for the internet age.
Andy Donovan | 03 May 2013
This weekend the Australia Council for the Arts will bring together 60 of Australia’s leading practitioners and thinkers in experimental practice.
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.
Nigel Featherstone | 01 May 2013
It doesn’t always involve conflict or the hip pocket nerve, so how do arts advocates get government and media attention?
Esther Anatolitis | 01 May 2013
The changes in funding and policy are rippling through the entire ecology of the arts and cultural sector.
Peter Bridgeman | 26 Apr 2013
Get help writing and don't worry too much about slick. After 10 years of experience, an awards judge reveals how he decides.
Lawrence Mooney | 26 Apr 2013
The relationship between performer and critic is fuelled with a lust for revenge that would be psychotic anywhere but the entertainment industry.
Anne Phillips | 26 Apr 2013
Retail auction houses and online sales are the way of the future.
Warwick Hemsley | 22 Apr 2013
We need better quantitative data on the arts sector to stimulate private and public sector investment.
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.
Phillip Adams | 17 Apr 2013
If you are a performing-arts-market-junkie addicted to flogging your arty arse to the global lions-den of presenters, read this.
Tamara Winikoff | 17 Apr 2013
The Australia Council ArtFacts reveals important information about visual arts but leaves some major questions unanswered.
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.
Erika Addis | 15 Apr 2013
Ideas are like photographs – they take time to develop. So what happens when film disappears and we move to the digital instant?
Linda Swinfield | 12 Apr 2013
One teacher who has felt the cost of cuts to TAFE funding urges others to take action.
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.
Paul Isbel | 11 Apr 2013
What’s a Queensland Minister doing buying in to a Victorian music inquiry? Education Minister Peter Garrett has a hunch.
Andrew Montell | 10 Apr 2013
Marketing jargon has tried to hijack street cred but artists are fighting back.
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.
Jeff Meiners | 03 Apr 2013
Dance has won a place in the arts curriculum but the policy will be a wallflower without the partnership of teacher training.
Deborah Stone | 03 Apr 2013
How does an audience respond when a comedian steps out of character and confesses to feeling bad about a show?
Andrew Bifield | 28 Mar 2013
Business is not the big bad wolf of the creative industries, and it’s time we stopped huffing and puffing.
artsHub | 17 May 2013
William Yang is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary work explores personal stories of sadness, heritage, death and life.
artsHub | 09 May 2013
Sean Woon has left the banking world and the 9-to-5 slog to invest himself fully into his start up and pipedream, allnewART.com.
artsHub | 02 May 2013
Dr. Danielle Wilde pairs technologies with the body in novel ways, to understand how to poeticise experience and is a 2012 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow
artsHub | 02 May 2013
Ireland's Karoline Rose O’Sullivan speaks with artsHub about her career as a performer and what she's been up to since moving to Sydney last year.
Emma Waterman | 30 Apr 2013
The body is the most invaluable resource of self-expression for contemporary dancer with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Beau Dean Riley Smith.
Emma Waterman | 30 Apr 2013
A recent graduate from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Kaine Sultan-Babij’s dances share ancient stories with a contemporary audience.
artsHub | 28 Apr 2013
Travel and accommodation packages are designed to create your own escape to Tasmania for as long as you like when you come to see The Red Queen.
artsHub | 28 Apr 2013
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra plays a live score in the dark to the Disney masterpiece Fantasia for Dark Mofo.
artsHub | 28 Apr 2013
Joanna Dudley and Dirk Dresselhaus and Schneider TM take inspiration from electronic music pioneers Louis and Bebe Barron in an experimental new work.
artsHub | 28 Apr 2013
Artist in residence at Detached, Ian Burns, is preparing a show for Dark Mofo.
artsHub | 28 Apr 2013
Two senses, two artists in combo, two festivals in synch, two locations, two months to do it all, too much for one mind.
artsHub | 26 Apr 2013
Since graduating from WAAPA in 2004, Petra Kalive has worked as
an actor, dramaturg and director.
artsHub | 18 Apr 2013
Nicole Sabatino, will dance in the world premier of Blak. The internationally acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre will tour nationally across Australia.
artsHub | 18 Apr 2013
Sally Gawley, National Music Coordinator with The Australian School of Performing Arts, talks to artsHub about her infectious passion for music.
artsHub | 18 Apr 2013
WAAPA graduate Bryce Youngman speaks with artsHub about his upcoming performance in, Death in Bowengabbie and his involvement in Poetry in Action.
artsHub | 17 Apr 2013
Mitch McDonald is one third of Perth-based band The Love Junkies, who will be performing at Groovin’ the Moo in Bunbury on 11 May.
artsHub | 17 Apr 2013
Sue Peacock is preparing to unveil the world premiere of contemporary dance performance Reflect, produced by Performing Lines WA.
artsHub | 15 Apr 2013
Contemporary visual artist Simon Currie, also known as >[sdc]< is a Sydney-based painter, photographer and printmaker.
artsHub | 12 Apr 2013
Stratosfunk are a high-energy soul band performing hits from the Motown era.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
Max and Ivan are polite British comedians Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
Brent Hill has triumphed in an exciting career of theatre, television and musical theatre.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
For Windmill Theatre, Jonathon has designed Boom Bah!, The Wizard of Oz, Fugitive, School Dance and Pinocchio.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
Seth Sentry is an Australian hip hop artist from Melbourne.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
Luke trained in dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Over the last fifteen years he has enjoyed many national and international performances.
artsHub | 11 Apr 2013
Matthew has written six full length pieces for theatre including: 12, Warren, Silver, Harbinger, Fugitive and School Dance for Windmill Theatre.
artsHub | 09 Apr 2013
Luke Currie-Richardson is a contemporary dancer and will soon be performing in Bangarra Dance Theatre's new work 'Blak'.
artsHub | 04 Apr 2013
ARIA-award winning Australian artist, Ben Lee, speaks about his up-coming album, "Ayahuasca: Welcome To The Work".
artsHub | 04 Apr 2013
Comedian, Tien Tran who is performing in, 'The Comedy Zone' as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival, speaks with artsHub about his craft.
artsHub | 04 Apr 2013
Green Room Award winner, Emily Taylor, talks about her career and, Cannonball, which is currently playing at Melbourne Comedy International Festival.
artsHub | 04 Apr 2013
Former Venezuelan, Ivan Aristeguieta, now Adelaide-based comedian, stars in 'The Comedy Zone' as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.