Cookery and craft entries at the 2024 Royal Hobart Show are up 30% over last year, highlighting the social and cognitive benefits of craft.

At the French city of Lille’s Palais des Beaux-Arts, “museo-therapy” draws on the power of art to improve health and wellbeing.

Artists who add a special credit to songs that use the sounds of nature can channel royalties from streaming to conservation projects.

Solarpunk started out as a speculative fiction genre. Now it informs sustainable architecture and design.

With an emphasis on mindfulness and human connection, New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall is using culture to cultivate wellbeing.

Queensland's arts and music scene is becoming more accessible for people with disabilities.

Milk thistle may help tackle some skin concerns, including signs of ageing and acne. just ask the stars of the movie 'Barbie'.

Shortly after being sunk at the end of WA’s world-famous Busselton Jetty, a ceramic art sculpture has become a new home for marine life.

A new Reality TV series for Britain’s Channel 4, Scared of the Dark, aims to help audiences understand sight loss.

Metal band TarantisT courageously goes above the radar to call out injustices in Iran.

With many public holidays pegged to Western traditions, companies are taking a more inclusive approach to days off.

A British artist paints the facades of some of her city’s rundown and neglected houses, transforming them into a rainbow of colours.

People who go to festivals feel more connected to other people and more willing to help strangers for at least six months after the event.

A new art exhibition in London explores the humanity, hypocrisy and — sometimes — humour of the much-maligned sex work industry.

Investing in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.

The TV sitcoms Ted Lasso and Sex Education are recasting male friendships, showing there are different ways of ‘being a man’.

A 10-year-old Texan boy is spreading the gift of reading to other children by collecting 500,000 books.

A French street artist is repairing the many potholes in roads and gaps in footpaths and crevices in walls with colourful tile mosaics.

A groundbreaking new law aims to let the French speak freely and without fear of discrimination.

Japanese creatives build a giant wooden xylophone in the middle of a forest. And it plays Bach, well ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.