Where Australia’s arts funding goesFollowing up from his great piece on the Australia Council’s failure to adapt to the digital era, Marcus Westbury charts exactly where our country’s arts funding is — and isn’t — going. In a word: orchestras.
Arts funding
Edmund Capon to leave the Art Gallery of NSW
Edmund Capon AM, OBE, who has steered the Art Gallery of NSW to national and international pre-eminence, is at the point of departure, writes Alex Mitchell.
Australia Council changes bathwater, loses babies
The Australia Council, an organisation in almost constant flux, has again spun the bingo barrel and pulled out a new round of surprises in its funding announcements, writes Ben Eltham.
Never mind the zealots: smoking has a role in film
Should movies be part of some ideological state apparatus for promoting health, wonders Simon Chapman?
Why Michael Duffy’s wrong about arts in Australia
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Michael Duffy needs to get out more. In Saturday’s op-ed pages Duffy wrote one of the more generalised and least researched pieces I have read from him in quite a while, writes Nick Pickard.
Our old-school film school is a waste of $20m
We should rethink Australian feature films and how we make them. For example, some easy money for arts education in schools can be found at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
