Visual Arts
Against self-censorship and political correctness
Over-sensitive political correctness is damaging freedom of expression, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas was told.
Take your kids to work: family-friendly artists’ residencies
Many artists find a baby a hindrance to creative life but child-friendly residency programs help parents continue their creative careers.
Vale Richard Neville, Boy from Oz
The death of the man who once shocked the world with the notorious Oz magazine marks an end in the…
How artists use social media effectively
Social media can be a vital career-building platform or vanity publishing that gets in the way of your real work.
Richard Flanagan: This is not my Australia
The Man Booker-winning author cited the leaked Nauru files as an answer to why writing matters.
Support to jump the mid-career hurdle
Career funds and fellowships aimed at mid-career artists acknowledge that the need for support doesn't end when you hit thirty.
Reading, ‘riting and swiping: the creative cost
Digital media now dictates a child's initial experience of literature, art and - most worryingly - often creative discovery.
Tate Modern director on risk and gender
ArtsHub speaks with Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern on managing risk, gender bias, funding constraints and partnerships with Australia.
Fan fiction booms but it’s not a free for all
Since 50 Shades of Grey catapulted from Twilight fanfiction to a phenomenon of its own, fanfiction has gained a new…
Dissident demi-gods rock the ceramic world
At just 27, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran has taken over the National Gallery with an exhibition that questions the face of…