When artists publish
Most of us would have the notion that artists' books -- that is 'books made by artists' -- are just quaint, nostalgic romances with a bygone craft. And while this is one aspect of the world of artists'...
View ArticleKartika Affandi
Establishing a name for yourself as a female artist in Indonesia during the 60s was never going to be easy. And being the daughter of one of the country's most respected painters made it even more...
View ArticleMuses & Mentors: David Williamson
The final in our Muses and Mentors segment Throughout the year, all sorts of artists, performers, writers and musicians have shared with us all their stories of significant influences in their life and...
View ArticleMartin Boyce
Congratulations to Martin Boyce, winner of this year's prestigious Turner Prize. He was in Melbourne in 2008 as the recipient of the Kaldor Public Art Project, with his work We are Shipwrecked and...
View ArticleArtworks Feature: Living room opera
There's a new phenomenon happening in the arts where the private sector is taking a hands-on role in the arts. You may have heard about the house museum where private citizens open their houses to the...
View ArticleWhat's the future for the Blockbuster?
Tate Modern in London is the world's most visited modern art gallery. It's just over 10 years old now, although the original Tate Gallery, now called Tate Britain, goes back more than 100 years to...
View ArticleCrowdfunding
Do you like the idea of being a patron of the arts? A latter-day Medici? But you probably lack the funds. Well, for anything from just a few dollars up, you can help back an arts project, among many...
View ArticleThe artists' studio
Since the death of the painter Margaret Olley, on July 26, there's been speculation about what will happen to her home and studio in Paddington in Sydney. Should it be preserved intact and open to the...
View ArticleBetty Churcher
Betty Churcher is best known for having been the director of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in the 1990s, then as the presenter of a television series about art. Her book, Notebooks, has...
View ArticleKamishibai: Japanese paper theatre
The Melbourne Writers' Festival is underway, and this year there's a whole part of the program that's devoted to visual story-telling, featuring numerous illustrators and graphic novelists. One of the...
View ArticleThe Great Manipulator: Antony Partos on pulling heart strings
How do you turn a gritty urban drama about a family of bloodthirsty murderers into an epic tale of love and betrayal? Well if you were rookie filmmaker David Michod you might get multi-award winning...
View ArticleMuseums and climate change
In the lead-up to International Museum Day, a two-day symposium was held in Sydney on the subject of museums and climate change. Called 'Hot Science - Global Citizens' it featured a range of...
View ArticleFred Williams Infinite Horizons
One of our best loved landscape painters, Fred Williams, is the subject of a big retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia right now. The exhibtion's called Infinite Horizions and it includes...
View ArticleArtworks Feature: The elaborate moments of Gregory Crewdson
In the Artworks Feature this week: how much work can go into making a single photograph? American photographer Gregory Crewdson's photos have been described as 'David Lynch films for your wall'....
View ArticleDV8: Can We Talk About This?
Lloyd Newson is an Australian dancer who set up DV8 Physical Theatre in London 25 years ago. DV8's work reflects Newson's personal interests in social, psychological and political issues. He has...
View ArticleAgainst the Wall
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, graffiti painted sections have been featured in all sorts of museums and public places. It's the art and slogans that vividly express the story of the wall --...
View ArticleArtworks Feature: Danish Children's Theatre
On this week's Artworks Feature, a trip to Denmark, the spiritual home of Children's Theatre. This country of only 5 million people supports almost 150 theatre companies devoted to children. It has the...
View ArticleThe Mad Square
One hundred years ago, the artist Ernst Kirchner, and others in his circle, moved to Berlin, hoping to establish themselves and their Expressionist art. This is the starting point for an exhibition of...
View ArticleTim Winton on the stage
Coastal Western Australia is the place where Tim Winton grew up and it's the place of his imagining and a setting for many of his novels -- and now his first play. Rising Water is in rehearsal right...
View ArticleDrawing a line in the sand
For the French thinker and writer Denis Diderot, drawing liberated the imagination, generating a fire and energy that finished paintings often lacked. Michelangelo urged his students to draw, draw and...
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