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Mark Mangini (left) and David White hold this year’s Oscar for Sound Editing for Mad Max: Fury Road. Paul Buck/EPA

August 22, 2016

The price of victory: comparing the cost of Olympic gold to an elite arts prize

Jason Potts, RMIT University; Patrik Wikström, Queensland University of Technology, and Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology

Amid the hand-wringing about the price of an Olympic medal, our experts crunched the numbers on the cost of success in the arts. And at A$8 million per international award, it turns out that elite culture is a lot better value than sport.

Deep funding cuts will affect Australia’s entire arts ecology. Ekke

May 13, 2016

Carnage in the arts: experts respond to the Australia Council cuts

Jo Caust, University of Melbourne; Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW; Julian Meyrick, Flinders University; Maria Miranda, University of Melbourne, and Tully Barnett, Flinders University

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.

Graham Beal led the Detroit Institute of Arts through the city’s financial crisis. Les Ward

February 13, 2015

Rescuing Detroit’s art museum: an interview with director Graham Beal

Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University

Graham Beal, the Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, recently announced that he will be retiring after fifteen years at the helm. Two of his achievements particularly stand out. The first is his…

If funding for Aboriginal artists and organisations is cut, performers like The Black Arm Band will not receive adequate support. IFACCA

April 19, 2013

Indigenous cultural policy: Creative Australia or creative accounting?

Jon Altman, Australian National University

Like many others, I was pleasantly surprised by the government’s announcement last month of A$54 million in funding for Indigenous languages as part of the national cultural policy – Creative Australia…

Top contributors

Stuart Cunningham
Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
Jon Altman
Research Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Joanna Mendelssohn
Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
Tully Barnett
Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Flinders University
Julian Meyrick
Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
Patrik Wikström
Principal Research Fellow: Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
Jason Potts
Professor of Economics, RMIT University
Jo Caust
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne
Henry Adams
Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
Maria Miranda
Maria Miranda is a Friend of The Conversation.

DECRA Research Fellow, University of Melbourne