Francisco Goya’s Fight With Cudgels/Lucha con palos (detail), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain via www.wikiart.org
International arts festivals have different needs from major performing arts centres, and need to stand apart from them for the mutual benefit of the arts ecologies in their respective cities, say some of Australia’s leading festival directors.
Their comments come as one of Australia’s best known arts festivals, the Adelaide Festival, is facing a merger bid. As previously reported by ArtsHub, a potential merger between Adelaide Festival and the Adelaide Festival Centre is currently being discussed by the South Australian Government and the Boards of the two organisations.