For Australia’s artists, the cost of living crisis is also a wellbeing and art making crisis. And the effects of this will reach us all.
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The Australian live music industry is in crisis. Is $8.6 million for Revive Live enough to turn things around?
New research into the working lives of artists shows how, through lower take-home pay and volunteer hours for their community, Australia’s artists are subsidising our arts industry.
My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face which are unknown to their city-based counterparts.
Unique factors contribute to burnout in Australia’s arts and culture sector. Preventing burnout will require long-term, sector-wide commitments.
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra quietly cancelled its Last Night of the Proms concert scheduled for the eve of the Voice. Do their words match their actions?
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
Our new research has tracked the gender of artists working at Australian opera companies and found evidence of pervasive gender inequality.
The continued reductions in arts funding seem counter intuitive given the negative impact of COVID on the arts and cultural sector.
Years of cost-cutting measures have left Australia’s national galleries, libraries, archives and museums in dire straits.
Aotearoa’s arts and cultural sector remains on an emergency footing following the last three years of pandemic disruption.
Revive is the first step into a new global landscape for which we barely have a language.
Our research team tracked the impact of Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe’s bestseller, over five years. We measured its value across a range of criteria, from financial to environmental.
The climate crisis will necessitate change to business-as-usual approaches to the arts.
The centre will importantly function as a point of contact and referral for arts workers who have nowhere else to go for support.
This is not quite a game changer, but it is going in a healthier direction.
Women artists from a non-English-speaking background suffer a triple earnings penalty. But there is no gender pay gap among remote Indigenous artists.
For a long time, arts organisations retained staff attracted to the ‘romance of being creative’. That’s no longer enough.
Arts Minister Tony Burke says the government is waiting for its new cultural policy. But artists are struggling now.
Breathing new life into a decade-old national cultural policy is a useful beginning. What is required now is an in-depth gestation period to position culture as a public good for the nation.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Artist, Curator, Producer, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Creative Industries, The University of Melbourne
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cultural policy consultant
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Senior Lecturer in Arts & Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
