Policy
Indie theatre sector releases zero-tolerance harassment policy
‘We will no longer tolerate this climate of fear and silence,’ say sector members.
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…
Trump plans to cancel US arts endowment
President Trump's FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes the elimination of the US National Endowment for the Arts, which funds community…
Why US conservatives want to defund the arts
The Trump administration's proposal to remove US arts funding is the battle cry for another round of culture wars, familiar…
Teaching doctors empathy through art
Health care students are developing their empathy, moral insight and cultural awareness through a program that helps them look at…
Artists building barricades against Trump
In difficult times, artists have more power than we think to influence the direction of politics and society.
Trump's win shows why we need the arts
President Trump is not the outcome of voters' dispassionate assessment of self-interest. The arts and humanities teach us that is…
Why useless art is useful
Visual arts is useless, edgeless and homeless...and that is a good thing both for artists and for society.
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.
Richard Flanagan: This is not my Australia
The Man Booker-winning author cited the leaked Nauru files as an answer to why writing matters.