Art, Sports Stars and the Depression: Knocking at the Door of the Special World

Our sports stars are successful because they are not burdened by funding programs which dribble a meagre supply to an army of unknown novices....the arts need radical strategies to help them survive the recession and achieve greater audience participation. (this article is responded to by Norm Austin, the Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of NSW).

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Culture as Transformation: ARX

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The Australia Shop -- EXPO 92 Seville

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Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees...

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Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives

The notion of the arts as an industry dates in Australia from about 10 years ago with the beginnings of statistical data measuring the economic impact of artistic activity. ... (Response to this article by Anna Ward, Director of the National Association of Visual Arts also in this issue of Artlink.)

Peter Anderson

Predicaments of Furniture Design

No matter what we say about furniture, it seems to have been said before. Small wonder that painting and installation attracts our writers more than furniture, when discourse about tables and chairs is confined to the rehearsal of so many grim platitudes. But if banality beleaguers the objects themselves, it is still more oppressively unavoidable in discussion of the unfortunate Australian industries of furniture design and manufacture.

Robert Nelson

The Arts- Survival of the BIGGEST?

The arts community of Australia has weathered the recession extremely well. While shopkeepers are shutting their doors, factories are shedding their workers, and the average Australian contemplates life in the same house for the next five years, the average artist continues on pretty much as always.

Brian Tucker

Aboriginal Art, the Nation State Suburbia

In Englishwe use the word 'country' in two main senses: to refer to nation states, and to speak about rural lands beyond the big cities and their suburbs. In Australia there is historically a third zone out past the country; the now quickly shrinking Outback.

Peter Sutton

A Response to 'Incidental Benefits'

Response to the article by Peter Anderson in this issue of Artlink examining arts industry rhetoric and policy objectives.

Anna Ward

Uncertainly Thinking

Exhibition review Blink Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide May 1992

Catherine Lumby

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