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What young adult fiction looked like in 2015

January 28 - Books, Opinion

Discussion on diversity in young adult (YA) fiction is not difficult to come by. Over the last couple of years, awareness of the need for greater representations of characters and lives in the literature produced for you...

French Street theatre company performing at the Santiago a Mil International Theatre Festival - Ivan Alvarado

Australia’s arts community has a big diversity problem – that...

January 21 - Opinion

The revelation last week that, for the second year running, every actor nominated for a major acting award in this year’s Oscars is white has prompted furious debate. The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...

JimmyC David Bowie Brixton Wall Mural 2013

David Bowie – innovator extraordinaire

January 12 - Latest News, Opinion

Musician, actor, icon and entrepreneur. David Bowie was an innovator in every way. He stepped into the vacuum left by the Beatles’ break-up in 1970 and developed an array of strategies that have gone on to become t...

Rise of the artistic machines

January 11 - Opinion

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential threat or benign force is a topic of lively debate. Respected mainstream voices, like Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, are pointing to the dangers of AI. ...

It’s TV! It’s opera! What to make of ABC’s The Divor...

December 9 - Opera, Opinion, Television

Billed as a “television opera” by the ABC, The Divorce had its first of four episodes broadcast on Monday night. A co-production with Opera Australia, it signals a desire to broaden the appeal of this supposedly most eli...

MGA Trent Parke Bathurst Races, NSW 1999

The camera is god: photographer Trent Parke grapples with an impossibl...

December 3 - Opinion, Photography

As Australia’s only member of Magnum, Trent Parke would be conscious of that celebrated post-war photo agency’s humanist legacy, and the critique of that legacy. Put simply, humanism in photography refers to the use of p...

AGNSW The Greats National Galleries of Scotland

Masterpieces from Scotland is easily the greatest exhibition of old ma...

November 27 - Exhibitions, Opinion

The Greats: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland – currently showing at the Art Gallery of NSW – is easily the most impressive exhibition of old master works to visit Sydney. But that’s not the only reaso...

Catalyst or NPEA, we need to grow up: artists aren’t playthings ...

November 26 - Latest News, Opinion

The latest change in the federal government’s arts funding approach, announced by new arts minister Mitch Fifield on November 18, raises more questions than it answers. Yes – as explored in an expert response panel...

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