Artists are again finding themselves at the receiving end of criticism over funding. A mural on the wall of a fire station funded through the Western Australia Percent for Art scheme has met with a hostile reaction in th...

The decision to merge the Department of Communications and the Arts with Transport, Infrastructure and Regional development (dropping the “Arts” entirely) ends a year in which Australian politics has been deeply confused...

Sydney is a city of ghosts: so much of the historic building fabric of this city is gone. In 2016, controversy erupted when the state government refused to grant heritage status to the Sirius building. A concrete masterp...

At Studio A, on the fourth floor of the Crows Nest community centre, a group of artists is working quietly. An occasional burst of laughter erupts from a corner of the studio. It makes its way around the room, past sculp...