• Where have all the artists gone?

    Ianto Ware     |      May 14, 2026

    The artistic population of Greater Sydney is shrinking and becoming less culturally diverse as housing costs rise.

  • How to enter the art world

    Benedict Carpenter van Barthold     |      May 9, 2026

    How to Enter the Art World by Hettie Judah offers a smørgasbord of sage advice for budding artists of all ages looking to navigate their way in a world where the human creation of art is threatened as never before.

  • The art of engagement

    Kim Goodwin     |      November 14, 2025

    Arts organisations can create shared value by collaborating with employees, communities and other stakeholders to ensure their long term survival.

  • Living in Australia

    Dominic Redfern     |      December 8, 2024

    Arts Project Australia has been supporting artists with intellectual disabilities for more than 50 years and a new exhibition showcases their work.

  • The mystery of Mona Lisa

    Darius von Guttner Sporzynski     |      June 1, 2024

    More than half a millennium since it was first painted, the real identity of the Mona Lisa remains one of art’s greatest mysteries, intriguing scholars and enthusiasts alike.

  • The great art robbery

    Oliver Bown     |      April 28, 2024

    AI threatens to replace real human artists, just as machines have replaced people in a host of other activities, but AI models were trained on artists’ works without permission or payment.

  • An opinionated guide to female painters

    Lydia Merrett     |      April 10, 2024

    A new book, An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters, offers a good introduction to the many women who have contributed to the development of western art.

  • An awfully big adventure

    Samuel Holleran     |      April 19, 2022

    While the ethical and moral questions raised by our mortality might be difficult to address in real life, there’s a long tradition of exploring them through art and culture.

  • Remembering two giants of Australian art

    Catherine Speck     |      January 24, 2022

    Australia lost two important artworld figures in the last ten days – both were senior artists working in Adelaide but with a reach extending far beyond the city or the nation.

  • Titian’s “The Death of Actaeon” and the capriciousness of fate

    Alastair Blanshard     |      August 1, 2021

    Great art, such as Titian’s The Death of Actaeon shows that disasters should not make us despair, but rather celebrate the preciousness of life while we have it.

  • An eye for difference

    Simon Cropper     |      July 19, 2021

    Please do not adjust your sets, normal service will not be resumed because dream, hallucination or reality are all a product of the same thing – your brain.

  • Face to face

    Tyne Sumner     |      July 11, 2021

    New research looks at how the human face is represented in writing from the medieval to contemporary eras, revealing how we have interpreted human emotion for centuries.