Policy
The Line Must be Drawn Here! City Gallery Wellington in crisis
The City Gallery Wellington saga may be reaching a final outcome – but it's a long way from over. Arts…
Imagining 2030: A New Approach sets the horizon on a national cultural policy
The need for a national cultural policy has long been touted as critical for the arts to be better valued…
Introducing new Music Tasmania CEO Keith Deverell
Taking on the challenges of helming an arts organisation in the wake of the pandemic was a chance for Keith…
What's Budget 2021-22 got for the arts?
The short answer is not much more. The longer answer looks at flat funding for the Australia Council and previously…
The 2021 budget must think big and reinvest in the social capital of ideas
The cash splash of the COVID-19 recovery budget should be used to place arts and creativity at the centre of…
Victoria to get $288 million to support arts sector following challenging 2020
Victoria’s creative industries will see some relief in the form of a $288 million investment from the State Government in…
Will the arts be talked up or down in the budget?
Ahead of the COVID-19 recovery budget, Esther Anatolitis looks at the narrative on the Creative Industries and what it might…
Fletcher’s ‘significant re-imagining of the arts’ falls short
Additional arts funding has not been equitably allocated, and the government has continued to ignore cultural workers not eligible for…
Inspiration during isolation: The long-term benefits of artist residencies
From playful figures to bathtub performances, artists are using the intense residencies of their past to create unexpected new works…
How art intervenes in an emergency
An artistic inquiry into disaster preparedness is in its last days and David Pledger thinks it has much to tell…