The National Gallery of Australia is facing a 10% reduction in staffing, but will maintain its $16 million acquisitions budget.
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Diversity is a vital part of a thriving art sector, yet only 8% of professional Australian artists come from a non-English speaking background. How can we beat “diversity fatigue”?
There are as many ways to summarise a “year in art” as there are eyes to look at art with. Art had some shining – and not-so-shining – moments in 2015.
‘If these index findings are indeed true then our economic and cultural performance, our overall prosperity, should be better than it is.’
In Talking Point, the Australia Council’s recently published “snapshot” of the Australian contemporary visual arts in 2014, it was surprising to find only one reference to the country’s 42 university based…
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Adjunct associate, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne