Bangarra backs Voice to honour the ‘rights of Indigenous peoples’

Bangarra backs Voice to honour the ‘rights of Indigenous peoples’

The dance troupe said a Yes vote would respect the truth of the past and value a future vision of equity and fairness.

  • byLinda Morris

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Forget the bridge and Bondi Beach:Culture at heart of new tourism plan

Forget the bridge and Bondi Beach:Culture at heart of new tourism plan

The Opera House,Bondi Beach and Sydney Harbour will have to share the tourism limelight with the city’s cultural life under the Minns government.

  • byLinda Morris
National galleries,archives to apply for future funding boosts

National galleries,archives to apply for future funding boosts

Museums and galleries have begun dusting off shelved programs following the federal government’s half-a-billion funding package.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos andLinda Morris
National Gallery wins funding reprieve to avert building crisis

National Gallery wins funding reprieve to avert building crisis

The federal government’s funding injection is the most important investment in the museum since its opening in 1982,its director says.

  • byLinda Morris
Funding pledge saves National Library’s Trove from closure threat
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Funding pledge saves National Library’s Trove from closure threat

Described by Arts Minister Tony Burke as “Australia’s digital memory”,Trove had been facing the threat of closure because of looming budget cuts.

  • byMatthew Knott andLinda Morris
The flowers taking over from roses this Valentine’s Day

The flowers taking over from roses this Valentine’s Day

In an age when sustainability and cost-of-living pressures are top of mind,demand for the Valentine’s Day rose is wilting.

  • bySophie Aubrey
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Can Australia become a nation that takes art seriously?
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Can Australia become a nation that takes art seriously?

The government has the opportunity to address the current crisis in the arts and to set it up for the future. But will it be cowered by the Philistines and the bean-counters?

  • bySean Kelly
‘A poet in plain prose’:Reflections on Helen Garner’s amazing opus

‘A poet in plain prose’:Reflections on Helen Garner’s amazing opus

Some of Australia’s finest minds reflect on the work of this “unflinching” writer,who has allowed us inside her head,without artifice,and tamed our most wild things into narrative.

  • byKerrie O'Brien
National Gallery of Australia misses out on extra funding for urgent repairs

National Gallery of Australia misses out on extra funding for urgent repairs

Some of Australia’s leading cultural institutions are still waiting on funds for major repairs following a modest budget night for the arts sector.

  • byLinda Morris
‘It’s not an arts hub’:Marrickville development takes different direction

‘It’s not an arts hub’:Marrickville development takes different direction

Three years after the approval of a cultural hub for 500 artists and creatives,the developer has blamed COVID for the absence of an anchor arts tenant.

  • byLinda Morris
Do not go gently:How bookshops are reinventing the business

Do not go gently:How bookshops are reinventing the business

Imagine if you slogged your guts out for an entire year and took home only $10,000. This is reality for plenty of people in our city – but now you can help.

  • byEmma Young