Tag: Arts policy
Australia should have a universal basic income for artists. Here’s what that could look like
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While artists struggle to get noticed in the Australian political arena, particularly in the lead up to an election, other nations take...
No, the federal government didn’t spend $4 billion on COVID support for culture and the arts
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Canberra thinktank A New Approach put out an interesting paper last week on the state of public funding for Australian arts and culture.
The report made...
The crisis of a career in culture: why sustaining a livelihood in the arts is so hard
La Boite’s artists company is embedding Queensland creatives in the theatre company for 18 months. Markus Ravik
In the arts in Australia, precarious employment, unpaid work and short-lived careers are the...
ABC’s new arts show walks the line between high and low brow — and it works
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Review: Art Works hosted by Namila Benson.
Critically discussing art in the contemporary era is like walking across a minefield blindfold while...
Sunday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars
A ghost light shines at the Theatre Royal in Sydney.
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What keeps democracies together? As America burns, Brazilians die and Europe braces for...
Giving it away for free – why the performing arts risks making the same mistake newspapers did
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Breaking Glass online performance
from Carriageworks. Daniel Boud
There’s a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. “The problem with...