The Gordon Darling Foundation is a perpetual public charitable trust, established in 1991 to “support Australia-wide, activities of importance in the Visual Arts.” Its grant program gives priority to exhibitions of Australian, Asian, Pacific or […]
The ABC, in partnership with the University of Melbourne & the Australia Council for the Arts, present TOP 5 Arts. This program is for graduate early-career practitioners and PhD researchers in visual arts, architecture, design, […]
The disused Collingwood tech site is set to become a contemporary arts precinct, with support from the Victorian Government. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley MP today announced $3 million, as part of the Government’s […]
THIS TUESDAY 5th July: Panel Discussion – The trouble with remuneration: the tricky business of being an artist In conjunction with West Space’s exhibition, The Trouble with Remuneration, there will be a panel discussion to […]
For the first time that I can remember Arts Funding has been a Federal Election issue (this article from Ben Eltham is a reminder that arts and culture barely rated a mention in 2013). This […]
News The Daily Review has come out with an editorial saying that ‘A Vote for the Coalition is a Vote against the Arts’ and with Arts Minister Mitch Fifield yet to release an arts policy and only […]
A new column from Burnaway will examine ‘Artspeak’ – the first column takes apart that the arts press release, the forum where I personally read some of most breathlessly nonsensical statements about art. Matthew Terrell […]
Happy International Museum Day! The big news in the arts over the past week was the new of who missed out on renewed funding from teh Australia Council, after the funding budget was drastically cut […]
A press release from ArtsPeak yesterday calls on the government to restore funding to the arts. “With the Federal election looming, ArtsPeak is calling for the restoration of Australia Council funding as a matter of urgency […]
A great piece from the sporadically posting but always entertaining Grumpy Art historian on reviewing the reviewers. He takes issue with the gushing nonsense becoming increasingly common in reviews of art exhibitions and the way […]
