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Arts is a $64 billion industry — so why aren't the leaders talking about it? Financial support for artists, local content quotas for streaming platforms and AI regulation are on the agenda this election.

Great work by my colleague Nicola Heath, summing up the arts policies of the major parties and the key issues for the different parts of the industry ahead of the election this weekend.

An art historical approach to the work of Khaled Sabsabi - ABC listen When questions were raised in Federal Parliament about two artworks by Khaled Sabsabi from 2006 and 2007, it was enough to convince Creative Australia to dump the artist from next year's Venice Bienna...

There's been a lot said about the politics of Creative Australia's decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi from the 2026 Venice Biennale, but what about the art? This week on The Art Show, Rex Butler and Paris Lettau from Memo Review join us for an art historical approach to the work.

Creative Australia's leadership faces questioning at Senate estimates - ABC listen The fallout over Creative Australia's decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as Australia's representatives to the 2026 Venice Biennale has continued over the last week.  A tense meeti...

On Arts in 30, we step into the tense meeting between the leadership of Creative Australia and senators during an estimates hearing last night, which marked the first public comment by Adrian Collette since the decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the Venice Biennale.

I think about "send me your address so I can visit you and explain my passions" every day

there are 27 EGOT winners. of these how many have EGOT tattooed on their mons pubis

a pox on the houses of everyone, in the UK, the US or elsewhere who, despite not seeing themselves as reactionaries, decided that trans kids were somehow the most important issue in the world at a time when so much else was going on, and who got their wishes now, but at what cost

You've Heard of Cat Twitter, But Have You Heard of Nonbinary Popeye Twitter? Popeye wasn’t just a salty sailor punching people. Strength was fluid, gender was fluid and the spinach flowed freely.

yea the spinach makes you non-binary www.autostraddle.com/youve-heard-...

can i just say, none of this is very brat

Freya is the best editor I've ever worked with! Extremely thorough, precise and thoughtful. You should definitely hire her.

Actually it stands for Radio National that's 576 AM 24 hour non stop good times tune in

"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?" Lynch said.

FEAR I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke—it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it should be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic.

“We’re supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging”

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.” ― David Lynch

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

I’m going to start saying YUCK YUCK loudly and backing away if anyone tries to show me something they’ve done with ChatGPT or AI

1. why is australia getting movies later than the rest of the world again, is it 2005???
2. I'm single handedly trying to make Nosferatu/Conclave the barbenheimer of the year, pls join me in the Concferatu cinema experience

It's also destroying the creative industry, not because it will outdo creatives but because it will be used by aforementioned horrid people as leverage to undermine writers/artists at every level, and the more you use it the more leverage you're giving them!

me: going on a gigantic Cole Porter bender
you: fucking up your life by not going on a gigantic Cole Porter bender

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

ado annie was the realest slut to ever do it

It takes around 8 million streams a year for an Australian artist to make minimum wage via spotify

the sexual ethics of Hot Frosty are genuinely insane to contemplate

I rly hope this is about black doves I want it to be good

the netflix christmas movie has gained self awareness and hot frosty is... good.

Amazing that a Tory peer wrote the most accurate leftist infighting musical ever

with such a jam packed parliamentary schedule this week, it’s unclear if the government is going to find time to take the lyrics of defying gravity and really hold space with that

literally. film stars don't die in liverpool should have been a rocket ship for his career

part of the ongoing societal issue of not letting men with conventionally attractive bodies do weird enough stuff. Like his face is made for weird indy films and we deserve to see it