Tag: Cultural cringe
Sunday essay: amid a war on culture, are Australia’s art schools an endangered species?
Image: Shuttlestock
The plight of art schools in Australia in recent decades is hardly breaking news. Shrinking budgets, staff cuts, amalgamations and reduced...
Sunday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars
A ghost light shines at the Theatre Royal in Sydney.
AAP/Joel Carrett
What keeps democracies together? As America burns, Brazilians die and Europe braces for...
Remember the arts? Departments and budgets disappear as politics backs culture into a dead end
The federal decision to eliminate a department of arts came
as a surprise to public servants. Image: Jade Ferguson/Opera Queensland
The decision to merge the Department...
‘Australia has no culture’: changing the mindset of the cringe
A scene from Bangarra Dance Theatre’s
Lore: the oldest continuing culture in the world resonates with overseas
audiences. Jeff Tan/Newzulu
“Australia has no culture,...