Visual Arts
Cheap seats, but not for the poor
New research by Oxford University shows that understanding cultural consumption is a lot more complicated that identifying the haves and…
When worlds collide and lovers meet
Starting an arts career is like having a new lover – especially if you’ve hopped from one field to another,…
Outside the Square
Outsider Art? The term spanks of marginalization and disempowerment. Indeed this form of art has been known by many names,…
KISSS and tell – The Revolutionary New Performance Form
KISSS and tell – The Revolutionary New Performance Form. Can you see what they're thinking? No? Well why not find…
Play it again, Sam
The practice of borrowing from older works to create new ones is well-established among artists. And contemporary performers and artists…
But is it ethical?
According to Thomas Shanks, S.J., executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: "Ethics is intimately bound up with…
Meet Melissa Mostyn
Newest contributor to Arts Hub Melissa Mostyn is set to join us with the monthly column, Deaf Zone. Originally a…
Intellectual fakes
On November 23 and 24 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Italy's Ministry of Productive Activities and the Italian Institute…
Rulers of the arts
There is nothing like a supportive opinion poll to cajole politicians into action. So it may be more than mere…
Finders keepers
Tangible and intangible cultural materials - art, craft, artefacts and human remains - have been hot property since the earliest…