Arts and the Economy?

Just recently I was giving a lecture to a large group of arts people when a person in the audience had a go at me for talking about the economy of the arts and not about art. I, too, am very conscious of the intellectual dilemma in this regard.

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Looks at the artist in residence program for Thancoupie at the Hamley Bridge Primary School South Australia in May 1992.

Karen Brown

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Dialogue with Thailand

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Anne Kirker

Culture as Transformation: ARX

Artist's regional exchange (ARX). Events such as ARX in Perth are rare and potentially of such value for me that, although not a participating artist this time, I was determined to travel from the east to attend. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Ian Howard, Anne Kirker and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

Vivienne Binns

What is Australian Work?

I am often asked where I originally come from. And, if I am in a wicked mood, I will try to embarass the questioner with some non-answer. A persistent enquirer will ignore the flippancy and further qualify their question by rephrasing the terminology to ask whether I was born in Australia (which incidentally, was the form the question was usually couched in up to the 1980s when issues of multiculturalism introduced a so-called obscure politeness.

Susan Cohn

Vicious Circles: Women's Exclusion from Contemporary Visual Art

Written with Cassandra Cavanaugh with graphs illustrating participation of women in the various sectors of the visual arts.

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Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives

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Peter Anderson

Metaphors of Mortality: Catherine Truman

Exhibition review Life Boat: Carvings by Catherine Truman Jam Factory Gallery South Australia 10 July - 9 August 1992

Susan Cochrane

The Ham Museum ARCO 1992

Critically examines the 11th manifestation of the international art fair ARCO in Madrid. Photographs of the art fair included in the article.

Ian North

Towards a Legitimate Interest

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