More than 70 of Australia’s Laureate professors have signed a letter to the minister for education, Dan Tehan, outlining the flaws in the proposed university reforms.
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne recently opened what may be its most ambitious exhibition: Melbourne Now, on display until March 23 2014. It features hundreds of works selected by 30…
A heist has taken place at the Louvre. It’s just the latest in a long line of cunning art heists.
While some are being given new platforms to express their views, the decline of paid journalism is shutting others out.
A city glistening with the light of holy icons, fragrant with incense, ringing with praise and holy, heavenly songs. These lines referring to the “mother of Russian cities” and the “joy of the world” may…
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
We are never going back to the days when landlines had pride of place in offices and hallways. But voice calls still play an important role in effective communication.
Crowd size estimates are part science, part art. When numbers differ, it’s not necessarily because someone is being dishonest.
The government needs to address the whole ecosystem of the arts, increasing funding to the Australia Council so individual artists and small organisations get adequate support.
The creative arts can activate emotion – the key to action – more powerfully than the average demagogue.
