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The much loved Parisian-born artist Mirka Mora died today in Melbourne at age 90. She had been at the centre of Melbourne’s creative life since her arrival in 1951. She and her then husband, the late Georges Mora, quickly became part of Melbourne’s artist scene and were friends with art patrons, the Heide founders John and Sunday Reed
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The digital realm is not what it seems, and impacts on music curation in myriad and hidden ways, says Tully Barnett, one of the lead researchers in the Flinders University team Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture. Barnett and Julian Meyrick and Robert Phiddian are co-authors of What Matters? – Talking Value in Australian Culture (Monash University
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Hi everyone Tristian here, it’s time to talk about arts advocacy and what better place to do it than Canberra! I went on a road trip to canberra this week with my family so I could come to the NAVA conference last weekend called Future/Forward. I heard it was about artistic courage so I
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As we begin to reflect on the discussions that Future/Forward has opened up about a contemporary arts sector that’s ambitious and fair, across Australia unprecedented billions of dollars are being committed to the contemporary arts – to bricks and mortar, that is, and not to artists themselves. $244 million from the NSW Government towards a
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By Daily Review
Last week, artist David Pledger applied for the position of CEO of funding body, the Australia Council for the Arts, by publishing his application for how to take the organisation into the 21st Century on Daily Review. Pledger wrote a long and thorough brief of his vision to the new chair of the Australia Council, Sam Walsh, the
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By Daily Review
In today’s arts news, there is not much new. Here is a release from the Victorian government: NEW CHAIR FOR MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Leading strategist and corporate consultant Tim Orton will take on the role of Chair of the Melbourne International Arts Festival Board, which will celebrate its 32nd year in October. Minister
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TO: SAM WALSH, CHAIR, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS RE: OPEN APPLICATION FOR THE CEO POSITION, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Dear Sam, Thank you for accepting this application. I have chosen to take this open and public approach to the recruitment process. I thought it only fair to include the whole arts sector whom
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Sam Walsh took up the chairmanship of the Australia Council last month. The former global head of mining company Rio Tinto is known in arts circles in Perth and London, but little is known about his intentions for the arts as he takes the helm of the country’s most important arts funding body. In this, his first
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By Helen Razer
Across the years, there have been two primary questions prompted by my criticism here at Daily Review. One, “Why are you paying for a menopausal conceit which should surely have been force-fed to rats by now?” The other, “Why won’t she shut up about politics when all I want to read about is art?” The
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Partners in life and art who divide their time between Victorian and Tasmania, recently sculptor Jon Eiseman and photographer Anne Conron decided to embark on extensive travels throughout Central Australia. The journey was an experience that Eiseman says left them both “overawed with the beauty of the land”, and it has inspired a powerful new
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