Why is it that the current darling of the pop scene, Taylor Swift, called her best-selling album (released in 2014) 1989? It was, granted, the year of her birth – but among her inspirations for it, she cited the 80...

Incredulousness is these days a fairly common state of being – it seems that everyone, many times a day, is lol whut, omfg, and truly, madly, deeply outraged. I’m a part of this body politic – multiple and continual drip...

Last Friday, the Australia Council announced what it called “a $112 million investment over four years to focus on small and medium sized arts companies”. Let’s skip past the misleading polly-speak use of the word “inves...

Internationally, dance criticism has an illustrious literary past. Writers such as Paul Valery, TS Eliot, and Edwin Denby, amongst others, have all written on dance performance. Denby, a poet and acclaimed dance critic f...

With the demise of the National Program for Excellence and the invention of the Catalyst Fund by the federal government in November 2015, the arts community is still at a loss around the real intent of this pool of fundi...

A fairly unattractive bunch of bored and boring party givers, mindlessly driving around midnight streets waiting for pieces of Skylab to fall on them and searching for meaning in the TV test pattern, hardly makes for a r...

Before JK Rowling, critics and experts predicted that young adult (YA) literature would finally die, as sales continued to decline. In 1997, a mere 3,000 YA books were published. A decade later that number was 30,000. Th...