Australia

What a digital aura can do for art
As privacy campaigners consider the dangers of mining metadata, we look at the implications for the arts of your online…

Final Awards Washup: putting 2014 in its coffin
Add all the key Australian awards for the non-craft categories and we discover a pretty fair dob of justice in…

AIDC/NET-WORK-PLAY: if we build it, will they come?
Does the world belong to the net? No, says Christie George, the picture palace can still rule our dreams. Which…

Astra: Twentieth anniversary awards night
Subscription TV goes tux and tiara for the annual awards, this time celebrating its twentieth anniversary.

Overcoming creative fear: a bestseller's guide
Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert took aim at the often-paralysing traits of fear and perfectionism in her talk on "How to…

Crowdfunding Success: the trick is deep in your brain
The science of human motivation is being applied to deliver artists and filmmakers crowdfunding success.

230 actors lose money in agency liquidation
In what may be a test case for NSW Entertainment Industry Act, a Sydney actors' agency has gone broke leaving…

Obituary: Stuart Wagstaff
Entertainer Stuart Wagstaff will be remembered for a 50 year career on stage and screen.

Box Office: That Sugar Film is tiny but perfectly formed
Sugars and Citizens exercise the passions of the faithful, while the Marigold franchise hypnotises the roaming sentimentalists.

The Wonders
A strong lead performance drives this dreamy yet authentic view of a dying way of living, as seen through pre-teen…