Newcastle’s saga continues
Monday’s public meeting at Newcastle held no surprises. Attended by a passionate crowd of nearly 300 people, the audience...
Read MoreBiennale for bubs
The Biennale (Bee-ah-nah-lee) of Sydney is upon us! Don’t be deterred by the title, which adults and children alike struggle...
Read MoreNewcastle public meeting called
Next Monday at Newcastle City Hall, Felicity Biggins will convene a public meeting to discuss the recent dismissal of Gallery...
Read MoreThe Arts & Cultural Development Program
A new arts and cultural development program will be introduced from 2015 to replace the Arts Funding Program, Minister for...
Read MoreThe best of Broken Hill
We’re so lucky to have opportunities to visit museums around NSW. Last week, we visited Broken Hill and discovered fascinating...
Read MoreBiennale of Sydney imagines new worlds
From 21 March with the opening of the 19th Biennale: You Imagine what you Desire, Sydney will become a playground...
Read MoreCaring collections: Westmead Hospital art collection
The Westmead Hospital art collection is just over 32 years old and its history is an interesting one. Born in...
Read MoreCollections prevent crime
Everyone knows that the Australian Museum does great work. They’re across all things beasts and bones; they present our natural...
Read MoreMeroogal Women’s Art Prize 2014
Call for Entries: Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 2014 Sydney Living Museums announces the return of the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize....
Read MoreAirport art welcomes you in Wagga Wagga
Airports can make interesting exhibition spaces. To start, there’s high visitor rotation, one group with time on their hands, the...
Read MoreAt Home: Woven in wire, shaped in steel
At Object’s New Weave, the audience is treated to a view of an artistic landscape so varied and strewn with...
Read MoreArtists’ studios: open doors
Europe may well have the immersive chaos of Francis Bacon’s studio in Dublin, the catalogued remains of the Giacometti...
Read MoreThe real cost of freedom of expression
The unfolding story of the Biennale boycott has left many in the art community reeling. Not just from the...
Read MoreNewcastle City Council sacks staff
Newcastle Council’s Future City Director Judy Jaeger and Newcastle Art Gallery Director Ron Ramsey have been sacked by Newcastle City...
Read MoreHarvesting the Value of Tourism
On Tuesday 11 March I had the pleasure to address the 2014 Local Government NSW Tourism Conference – Harvesting the...
Read MoreStriking Contrasts unpacked
Rapture (silent anthem), by Angelica Mesiti, gained significant media attention as an entry for the Blake Prize for religious art in...
Read MoreDug in, down under with larrikin humour
The Bunker Cartoon Gallery is Australia’s only cartoon gallery, its name a nod to the disused World War II...
Read MoreDirector does Dallas
Brett Adlington, the director of Lismore Regional Gallery, embarked on a NSW Government Fellowship with the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA),...
Read MoreLover of butterflies?
Are you a lover of butterflies? Then you’ll fall love this great little app—The Art of Science: butterfly and...
Read MoreStandards has started!
Last week, representatives from 6 museums and a gallery from the NSW mid-north coast met at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery...
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