Are we counting culture to death?
It’s a strange thing when the re-entry of genuine choice into political contests is framed as “anti-politics”. It feels more historically accurate, and logical, to see it the opposite way. For the past…
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2016, the year that was: Arts and Culture
Many great artists died in 2016: Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Paul Cox, Shirley Hazzard. It was a year of creative foment and as always, intense debate about the importance of the arts to a thriving, democratic society.
Friday essay: the arts and our still-born national identity
There was once a sense of excitement about creating a genuinely Australian culture and making our own way in the world. What's happened to that optimism?
Can the arts sector reinvent itself?
A culture of 'managerialism' has bled the arts of originality and purpose. We need a changed mindset and an arts and culture think-tank that is separate from the Australia Council.
Why Australia needs a Chief Artist
In one of those abyssal silences that punctuate official Thinkfests when artists have to come up with new policy ideas that don’t involve asking governments for more money, I once facetiously suggested…
Why arts schools matter, not just for art’s sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities
Art schools are emerging globally as very powerful instruments of urban renewal. In a time of transformation, Sydney must learn to tap into the value of having multiple art colleges.
Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?
What's in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
Carnage in the arts: experts respond to the Australia Council cuts
A 'mortal blow' to the South Australian theatre scene. 'Inexplicable' cuts to centres for photography in two states. The Australia Council's latest funding decisions have left the arts sector reeling and are evidence of a government indifferent to culture.
Federal budget 2016: arts experts react
Last night's budget failed to offer a compelling overall policy framework and vision for the arts in Australia. Like a Beckett play, narratively not much is going on.
2015, the year that was: Arts + Culture
It's another year in Arts + Culture, so in case you missed it we've collected all the best coverage of screen, theatre, music, books and culture in one place.
Short shelf life: the Book Council of Australia is stuffed back on the rack
The Book Council of Australia – announced by Tony Abbott just over a year ago – was today scrapped. But we still need a body to advocate for literature and to advise government on policy settings.
Catalyst or NPEA, we need to grow up: artists aren’t playthings for the government
With a change in prime minister and a new arts minister there has been an acknowledgement perhaps that the arts matter. But have the needs and concerns of the arts sector have been understood?
Out with the NPEA, in with Catalyst: expert response
Following a sustained and vocal campaign by the arts sector, the controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts has been rethought and renamed. Should we be celebrating or concerned?
Share don’t scare: we need to nurture (and learn from) young cultural leaders
Young, experimental arts practitioners are exploring new ways to think about cultural leadership. But if we see leadership as a form of action rather than a role, how should we teach it?
Leaving legacies behind: arts policy for the here and now
Turnbull’s 21st century vision for government provides an opportunity to fundamentally rethink arts and cultural policy from the ground up and move beyond its 20th century legacy.
Was it but a dream? Post Brandis, we need a reordering of national arts priorities
If the new arts minister, Mitch Fifield, abolishes the National Program for Excellence in the Arts and diverts its funds back to the Australia Council, he will increase arts funding at no cost to the budget bottom line.
The Senate Inquiry into Arts Funding: a new live performance work
In live performance, when developing a new work and before getting to the final rehearsal period, previews and season, there is often a public showing. Enter the Senate Inquiry, stage left.
Ten dos and don'ts for thinking about arts funding and the NPEA
How can common standards apply to a sector with so much difference? Artists must take the opportunity to sharpen their minds as well as their rhetoric. The implications of the NPEA go beyond the polemical.
Comparison of National Gallery to Disneyland touches a nerve
The debate about museums as businesses is in danger of trumping defences of museums and galleries as public institutions.
Jeremy Corbyn is the only candidate with a distinct arts policy
Political discussion about the arts and creative industries is famously woolly ybland, generic and interchangeable. But Corbyn cuts through this.
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