It can be incredibly difficult to kill an arts company in this country and damn near impossible to simply let it die a natural death. Come the apocalypse, the only things likely to survive are cockroaches, email spammers and arts companies. Yet finding a way to let things die is vitally important in the realm [...]
Creativity needs Creative Destruction
June 16th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: ANAM · Arts · Arts Funding · Creative Destruction · Creativity · cultural commentary · cultural policy · Marcus Westbury · media · the age
The culture of hard times
January 30th, 2009 9 Comments
From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs drying up, businesses closing, incomes evaporating and people fast becoming un or underemployed are mounting around me. It is [...]
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