A statement from CAST on Australia Council cuts
The Confederation of Australian State Theatre Companies (CAST) has this morning come out swinging against Australia Council budget cuts that have seen 62 existing arts [...]
Politics of Art
Profoundly Tested
“We are profoundly tested.” That’s how Christchurch Art Gallery director Jenny Harper described the situation she found herself in just one year after the [...]
Erin M Riley’s TapArseTry
When I think of tapestry, I think of my grandparents’ house. Each room had at least a couple hanging on the walls. Not the expansive (and expensive) Belgian ones that [...]
Jan Murphy Gallery: the First 20…
The thing I hear most regularly from people who find out I’m an Arts writer is some version of the statement “you must meet a lot of wankers”, and [...]
Fashion as Art…so…FART?
Oh, blerg. It’s ‘fashion as art’ season again. This happens every few years – the major public galleries around the country throw their doors and [...]
Hope & Love: through the eyes of refugees
You know what’s great about Australia’s handling of our refugee ‘crisis’? It’s that no matter how long you take to write about it, it never [...]
A Temporary Display of Birmingham’s Loss During World War I Leaves a Lasting Impression
I keep getting taken back to an email I received a few weeks ago questioning my focus on art when there is so much suffering in the world. I go back to it not because it [...]
Art created from the heart of war
Last week I received an email from a follower to this blog asking why I thought art was worth discussing when there are so many terrible things happening in the world. Today [...]
Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Winners Announced
An update, and I’m more than happy to say my predictions were completely incorrect! Here are the winners: Fiona Lowry has taken out the Archibald Prize for 2014 with [...]
NAIDOC Week 2014
It’s NAIDOC Week! Held annually from the first Sunday in July, NAIDOC Week is a celebration of all things awesome about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, [...]
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