Arts ministers are human beings and they often have views about what art should and shouldn't be, argues Josephine Caust in her new book.

We explore the history of Fidelio, and talk to Simone Young and First Nations writer Tyson Yunkaporta about the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s new concert version.

As she was about to perform in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play A Raisin in the Sun, the American actor discovered a program from the 1959 Broadway production in a box of her father's things.

Ilbjerri AD Rachael Maza and performer Monica Jasmine Karo discuss the remount of John Harvey's musical play, as we wait to see how the Albanese government honours its commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Tania de Jong discusses the creation of the new musical based on the lives of her grandparents, Austrian/Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist/inventor wife Slawa Horowitz-Duldig.

Direct intervention by governments in arts subsidy has increased dramatically in the past decade, says Josephine Caust in this extract from her new, free Platform Paper Arts, Culture and Country.

As Currency Press turns 50 today, we talk to Nick Parsons and Wesley Enoch about the important role the publishing house has played in preserving the work of local playwrights, and changing the perception of Australia as a literary nation.

As Wesley Enoch prepares his fifth and final Sydney Festival, we look at the successes and controversies of his artistic directorship, and whether the self-acknowledged risk-taker might follow his sister into politics.

While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

From flygskam to hazardous air quality, the changing climate is increasingly having an impact on classical music and the arts. Angus McPherson considers how artists and organisations are rising to meet these challenges, and asks what role the arts can play in the face of a climate crisis.

Curator Daniel Browning and artists participating in Momentum at Barangaroo will be joined by Yo-Yo Ma next Tuesday.

Raised on Charlie Pride and the music of the 60s, the Artistic Director of Sydney Festival recalls how a student production of The Marriage of Figaro made him change his mind about classical music.