CALL OUT: Fishers Ghost Art Award 2014
The annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is a highlight of Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. This year marks the...
Read MoreWhat’s so real about ‘Keeping It Real’?
Many readers will be aware that since 2010 the AlburyCity Cultural Services Team has hosted a series of one-day industry...
Read MoreTweed Museum reopens!
Last weekend, the multi-million dollar, three-year upgrade of the Tweed Regional Museum came to fruition when the doors of the...
Read MoreLove architecture? Love people?
The good folk at Sydney Living Museums are in the throes of organising one of the best out-and-about events in...
Read MoreSeeking artists for ANZAC Centenary Exhibition
The exhibition will offer a diverse range of perspectives and reflections of the 100 years since the beginning of the...
Read MoreTourism champions!
This is the sort of story we love to tell. This week the Port Macquarie Museum won gold! They’ve...
Read MoreACHAA workshop and inaugural AGM
ACHAA (Aboriginal Culture, Heritage & Arts Association Inc.) is a new association established for NSW Aboriginal cultural centres, keeping...
Read MoreThe MCA’s Disability Action Plan in action
Have you ever heard of the Bella Program? It’s a brilliant idea from the MCA that provides children with disabilities...
Read MoreA culturally ambitious nation: OzCo’s new Strategic Plan
Aptly titled ‘A culturally ambitious nation’, Australia Council’s new Strategic Plan was launched yesterday by Senator George Brandis, Federal Arts...
Read MoreThe Balnaves Gift
In 2011, long term Mosman resident and successful businessman Neil Balnaves AO donated a million dollars worth of paintings from his...
Read MoreA day at Cockatoo Island
Arriving in a windswept mess after a very blowy ferry ride from Circular Quay, I front up at the Cockatoo...
Read MoreAt Home: It’s not all black and white
In this column we have been promoting NSW Aboriginal artists, both living and dead, to explore the contributions they make...
Read MoreRemembering World War I
If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white...
Read MoreAztecs: Worth the sacrifice
In September, the touring exhibition Aztecs comes to the Australian Museum. M&G was lucky enough to see this at Museum...
Read MoreThe ghost of shopping’s past
Imagine David Jones or Myer with separate entries for men and women. Once upon a time modesty in department stores...
Read MoreEvery Breath You Take
For the second Tamworth Textile Triennial, which opened at Tamworth Regional Gallery in August 2014, the curator, Cecilia Heffer, asked...
Read MoreOverheard at the gallery
A trip to the gallery is typically a visual experience, but there also exists the sheer enjoyment of overhearing what...
Read MoreIs risk-taking in art dead?
In an essay for the latest Platform Paper titled Take Me To Your Leader: The dilemma of cultural leadership, Wesley...
Read MoreWhy Cultural Facilities Matter
On the eve of Local Government Week, the most recent major research from M&G NSW was launched by the Minister...
Read MoreThe muddy waters of art and money
Money and arts have long been bedfellows with patronage and partnerships going back to Renaissance times. Reports such as the...
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