Guest post by Ben Eltham: Australia Council changes bathwater, loses babies
Republished from yesterday’s Crikey with permission. The Australia Council, an organisation in almost constant flux, has again spun the bingo barrel and pulled out a new round of surprises in its funding announcements — this time in the theatre sector. [...]
Not Quite Art returns
Marcus Westbury’s excellent series Not Quite Art returns to ABC1 tonight – @ 10pm, with a replay on ABC2 on Sunday @ 7pm and streamable on iview. Stilgherrian has more.
Bill Henson, visual shock and the democratisation of art
As no doubt everyone has noticed, there has been a vigorous discussion in comments about the latest Bill Henson brouhouha. I don’t want to comment explicitly on the issues raised by David Marr’s “revelation” that Henson had visited a primary [...]
Cities and suburbs and transcending the dichotomy – creatively
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/new_farm_houses_v_by_phenomenologist.jpg" align=left I’m not sure where it came from, but there’s been a bit of praise for the suburbs around the joint lately, and dissing of the dissers of the suburbs. Age columnist Shaun Carney attracted a bit of [...]
Always on: the internet, social media, communications and everyday life
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/large_0212-sleep.jpg" align=left In doing a bit of reading for a couple of courses I’m teaching this semester, I was struck recently by the concision with which Mark Deuze pings how mediated so many aspects of our everyday lives now [...]
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