How do you respond to someone with no time for arts funding? Esther Anatolitis provides a comprehensive list of stock answers to criticisms of the arts and arts funding.
The arts are important to more and more people. As an industry, the arts employs more people than mining. Study after study connects art with health and innovation and the economy. And yet, there are still too many lazy responses to the arts in the mass-market media.
Call their bluff
A couple of years ago,one of the ABC regional stations hopped on the bandwagon. Laura Woodward’s Concentric (2012) had just been commissioned for the Western Highway and unveiled by Horsham Rural City Council. The local ABC’s first response was to take a highly misleading photograph of the work and post it on their Facebook, with language that deliberately incited all of the usual waste-of-money responses, and succeeded in lighting up their talkback radio panel. The work... Keep reading on artsHub
The arts are important to more and more people. As an industry, the arts employs more people than mining. Study after study connects art with health and innovation and the economy. And yet, there are still too many lazy responses to the arts in the mass-market media.
Call their bluff
A couple of years ago,one of the ABC regional stations hopped on the bandwagon. Laura Woodward’s Concentric (2012) had just been commissioned for the Western Highway and unveiled by Horsham Rural City Council. The local ABC’s first response was to take a highly misleading photograph of the work and post it on their Facebook, with language that deliberately incited all of the usual waste-of-money responses, and succeeded in lighting up their talkback radio panel. The work... Keep reading on artsHub