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Regional gallery leads national debate on male gender politics
A regional gallery director’s curatorial indulgence opens the door on a national debate, and catches the eye of the Classification…
Indigenous photography – complex, contemporary, surprising and fresh
If the well-used adage that a picture speaks a thousand words is true, what is the current focus on Indigenous…
The entrepreneurial value of wild ideas
Back to Back Theatre's Alice Nash on the ingredients needed to make great work, and the value of such work…
Singing death: why music and grief go hand in hand
Sometimes the music surrounding death tells us as much about the mourners as it does about the dead.
Collaboration appears to be the new curatorial model
A growing trend stimulates a rethink and a conversation about the effectiveness of curatorial collaborations as a new model for…
Get em young and reap the long-term outcomes
Research has shown that over 60% of recent visitors attended cultural organisations as children, findings which have significant ramifications for…
The healing power of hip hop
The core values hip hop include social justice, self-worth and community. Consequently it’s increasingly being used as a therapeutic tool…
Black actors still struggle for recognition on both sides of the Atlantic
150 years after Ira Aldridge’s death, the need for a colour-blind stage is as vital as ever.
Q&A with MCA’s Anna Davis
For Anna Davis curating is a kind of laboratory where you can test out ideas and discover new things. Having…
Freeing the arts from the yoke of neoliberalism
A pervasive ideology has encouraged us to see individuals, not a society; to think of competition as natural and emphasise…