ABC Arts Online (www.abc.net.au/arts) is the place to catch up on the day’s arts news, listen to great arts stories from Radio National, Classic FM and Local Radio, watch short and long-form arts documentaries, and read in-depth arts journalism from some of Australia’s leading critical thinkers.
“ABC Arts Online brings together the very best of arts coverage from right across the ABC: TV, Radio, News and Online. Now our audience can engage with this genuine multi-platform offering in one place,” Head of Arts for ABC TV and ABC Arts Online, Katrina Sedgwick, said.
“Led by editor Nicola Harvey, we are delivering a vibrant arts magazine that not only mines the rich arts coverage on offer across the ABC, but also commissions exclusive online content including long-form articles, mini arts docs and artworks.
“Visitors to the site can find out what’s happening in the day’s arts news. They will be able to listen to intelligent, insightful, cutting-edge radio features and stories and – in an era of shrinking column inches for the Arts – read great arts criticism and analysis.
“And importantly, given how much of our audience increasingly watches the TV on demand, they can then catch up on wonderful long-form arts documentaries from Australia and around the world. With fresh content every day, there will be great material to watch, read and listen to, giving our national audience inspiration and information about what’s happening in the arts right across the country.”
Launching the site, Federal Australian Minister for the Arts Tony Burke said: “I have been using the ABC hub for years now. As of today there is a new home for the news of creativity. This isn’t just bringing the richness of ABC artistic content to the one hub, today’s announcement means more content, more analysis and more discussion of a creative Australia.”
Among the key contributors writing for the site are critic and novelist Alison Croggon, novelist Courtney Collins, critic and cultural commentator Daniel Golding, musician and journalist Barnaby Smith, visual journalist Simon Crerar, film journalist Julie Rigg, features writer Pip Cummings and art historian and writer, Rex Butler.
As well as bringing the arts to Australians, the site will also take Australia and the arts to the world, with the majority of material accessible internationally.*
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*Long-form arts documentaries are available to view online for our Australian audience only.
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