Arts In 30
Your ultimate guide for staying in the know and getting inspired. An essential wrap-up of arts news and the best interviews, brought to you by the Arts team at ABC Radio National.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2025
New voices and deep engagement: the importance of criticism
For almost a quarter of a century, Peter Rose has steered the Australian Book Review as its editor, giving a space for Australian writers to engage critically with the work of their peers, and the wi…
00:33:47 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
The arts at the polls
Australia heads to the polls on the 3rd of May to elect a new federal government. And while the campaign so far has centred on the cost of living, the result will also have a major impact on the arts…
00:29:25 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
The Oscars embrace stunt design and Maud Page takes over at the Art Gallery of NSW
The Academy Awards have announced a new category, which will recognise the best stunt design in a film, but what does it take to actually pull off those stunts safely? Keir Beck, who has worked on ev…
00:36:09 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Can the arts industry revive its appetite for risk? And are the visual arts a gig economy?
Whatever their medium, artists deal with sensitive topics, often taking a critical, anti-establishment approach. But at the moment, some artists are finding that their art, and their opinions, can se…
00:29:56 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Creative Australia, local quotas, and AI theft: Tony Burke revives Labor's arts policy
In 2023, the Labor Government launched a major arts policy, Revive: a five year plan that promised substantial funding and a renewed focus on the arts by the Australian Government.
With Australia h…
00:41:43 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Meta uses pirated books to train its AI platform and Wanda Gibson makes history
After internal documents from Meta were made public via a US court case, many Australian authors have found out that their work may have been used by the tech giant to train its generative AI model, …
00:28:36 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively and the court of public opinion
Last year, the actor Blake Lively accused her co-star Justin Baldoni of inappropriate conduct on the set of their film, It Ends With Us. That's led to lawsuits and counter-lawsuits, but it's also cre…
00:28:34 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Another music festival cancelled as the live music inquiry hands down its recommendations
The parliamentary inquiry into the live music industry has been handed down with a range of recommendations. But at the same time, another music festival has been cancelled: Esoteric is the latest to…
00:32:36 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
More voices call for change in the leadership of Creative Australia
An exclusive conversation with the gallerist Josh Milani, who represents Khaled Sabsabi, the artist at the heart of the controversy engulfing Creative Australia. Milani explains how he believes the c…
00:40:40 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Creative Australia's leadership faces questioning at Senate estimates
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 meet…
00:27:25 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Resignations and condemnation in the wake of Creative Australia's Venice Biennale decision
The decision by Creative Australia to cancel their own selection for Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale has led to shock and condemnation across the arts industry, with several hi…
00:28:35 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
The human impact of the APY Art Centre Collective investigations and Perth Festival powers up a new site for art
The remote art centre collective at the heart of claims of white interference in black art has been cleared of any wrongdoing for the fourth and final time. But what was the cost for the organisation…
00:26:46 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
APY Art Centre Collective cleared by ORIC & the challenges facing the Australian music industry
After nearly two years of scrutiny, the remote art centre collective at the heart of claims of white interference in black art has been cleared for the fourth and final time. The Office of the Regist…
00:28:35 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Donald Trump's impact on the arts and a shrinking market for Australian authors?
While Karla Sofía Gascón became the first openly trans woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for her role in Emilia Pérez, former US president Donald Trump declared that "there are onl…
00:26:44 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Preserving art during natural disasters and farewell to David Lynch
In the wake of the fires in Southern California, with the loss of private collections and the threat to the Getty Museum, how are Australia's cultural institutions protecting their collections in an …
00:26:07 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
INTRODUCING — Arts in 30, coming to this feed soon
Your survival guide to arts and culture in Australia and across the globe, Arts in 30 with Daniel Browning is a new digest of the big stories in arts and entertainment.
Get up to speed with the new…
00:02:36 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
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