WHAT is the etiquette for tweeting at the theatre, a concert or any other live performance? Should you do it at all? Or never? Should it be encouraged even rewarded or frowned upon? It may not have been the biggest arts story going around in the general community last week but, as you [...]
Those in the #tweetseats just rattle your iPhones
August 13th, 2010 View Comments
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The National Broadband Network is a cultural project?
August 9th, 2010 View Comments
WHAT IS the largest cultural infrastructure project Australia has ever undertaken? If you guessed the Sydney Opera House or Federation Square, I’m afraid to inform you that you’re not even close. The largest piece of cultural infrastructure in Australian history is under construction even as we speak. A clue? It’s not a gallery, a theatre [...]
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A billion lost opportunities?
March 21st, 2009 View Comments
The Sydney press is reporting this morning that the NSW state government “has agreed to fund a $1 billion project to finally bring the Sydney Opera House in line with its designer’s vision.” This decision is one that is so staggeringly out of touch with the realities of cultural policy at the moment that it [...]
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