Friday the 13th of May was a bad day for arts organisations in Australia. All over Twitter were bursts of emotion like fireworks – pledges of people subscribing for the first time to the likes of literary journals ‘Meanjin’ or ‘Voiceworks’, in a show of support after announcements of cuts to funding. If you aren’t…
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I once had a lecturer who remembered attending a symposium on feminist art history in the 1980s, just after Griselda Pollock’s landmark text Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art had been published. Pollock had attended this particular symposium, along with other prominent feminist art historians, artists and critics. Summing up…
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Are you an artist or writer currently based in the ACT and don’t feel especially clued up on the legal issues surrounding your practice? Welcome to the club! But we’re all in luck as the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres have announced a new partnership with the Arts Law Centre of Australia to deliver…
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(Image Credit) “This song is loud, like Academy is usually like,” jokes musician Michael Liu onstage, before picking up a violin. For those unfamiliar with Canberra’s clubbing haunts, here’s a quick rundown of Academy: vodka raspberries; ‘4some Thursdays’; foam parties. An unlikely location, then, for a night showcasing Canberra’s local artists. It’s probably the first…
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