Worried about a career in the arts? It’s not as bad as you may think. Journalists and printers may be on the scrap heap, but there are more artists employed than ever according to new data.
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In a world of art, advancing Australia’s fairs
As Australia’s largest art fair opens next week in Melbourne, Crikey examines the growing importance of art fairs in an increasingly global art market. Australia is emerging as a player.
READ MOREDo the arts need to dry out? An addictive cultural cocktail
If you drink and make art … It’s time for artists and the industry broadly to have a mature conversation about alcohol in our industry.
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Outsourcing the arts at Aunty: the problem with commissioning
ABC TV’s flagship program Art Nation has been axed and 15 people have also been reportedly offered redundancies. So what does that mean for arts programming, asks Nicholas Pickard?
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Crean gets to work on Labor’s cultural fabric
Some broad outlines of Labor’s National Cultural Policy are beginning to finally emerge. But arts minister Simon Crean faces some big questions from industry and artists.
READ MOREThe plan to provoke a profound shake-up to the arts
A new report from the Australia Council has big implications for Australian cultural policy, says Ben Eltham. Its conclusions imply a profound shake-up in the current status quo.
READ MORECate Blanchett: Arts is far more than just an industry
There is a growing demand for the arts industry to ‘prove’ itself, with KPIs and profitability charts. We’ve proved ourselves. Now let’s stop thinkings of arts as a business, when its power is far beyond that, writes actress Cate Blanchett.
READ MOREArty farts in uproar: culture isn’t just in the eye of the benefactor
Art gallery directors are begging, pleading and quitting over the lack of funding being made by state governments to their state cultural institutions. With funds drying up and art seen as charity, we’re becoming a second-rate culture, writes John McDonald.
READ MOREDoes Garrett have competition for the Arts job?
An ALP insider has told Crikey that Bob McMullan is likely to be the new Arts Minister under a Rudd Labor Government. What would he be like? wonders Nicholas Pickard.
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