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There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
City centres have been hit hard by lockdown measures - but can artists and entrepreneurs really breathe life into the space?
Urban planning and cultural policies often neglect electronic dance music. Now the pandemic is forcing the EDM world to come up with new strategies to survive.
Literature funding has been cut brutally in recent years and writers’ incomes are disastrously low. Yet books shape our national identity, forming an often invisible bedrock for the wider economy.
There aren’t a lot of studies on South Africa’s cultural economy. A new one finds a cluster of creative firms in Cape Town with high levels of innovation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed museums and cultural sites worldwide. Meanwhile, curators are already working hard to preserve the current moment so that future generations may understand it.
A new report by the cultural think tank A New Approach establishes some useful baselines for Australia’s cultural debate.
Cinema is the most popular firm of cultural participation, but rising ticket prices threaten that.
The Coalition government’s approach to arts and culture policy has been one of ad hocism and neglect. Perhaps most serious has been the damage done to the Australia Council and the ABC.
At a time when even accountants are looking for a more compelling understanding of value, it is imperative that the arts – where individual experience is central – resist the evangelical call of quantification.
The loss of creative spaces to development is pricing Sydney artists out of the city. But they could be encouraged back with new cultural policies.
A new approach to arts advocacy and research could be the breath of fresh air the sector needs - or just more of the same.
Sports and the arts are now separated, but it wasn’t always like this.
The notion of the creative sector driving fulfilling work as cities shed old industries has worn thin. But those creatives might be delivering value of a different kind, offering a more human future.
A comparison of 36 Australian cities finds that, unlike Europe, the data on their creativity and culture are not closely linked to their capacity to generate economic value and social well-being.
Grassroots venues are run on tight margins, and have been under pressure for some time from external factors such as rising costs and gentrification.
Canada, a country with a similar demographic and economic profile to ours, has a very different approach when it comes to arts funding. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there is a renewed sense of vitality in the arts.
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was “innovation” – at least, it was this time round. In 2015, the Word was “excellence”. And in the antediluvian era of the 1980s and 1990s, the Word was, variously…
The decision looks like a reinforcement of the large imbalance in cultural spending between London and the north of England.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Head of Department of Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Centres for Business and Social innovation, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor, Flinders University
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
