Brains in gear better than bums on seats

The Australian, 13 July 2010, Australia

SUPPORTING the arts means resilience, says Robyn Archer. One of the most experienced, respected and powerful arts identities in the country, Archer knows very well that her formulation of a dichotomy between "that stuff" - heritage art - and the fresh ideas created by young and emerging artists will trouble some of her colleagues. Within the arts sector, there is mounting frustration, not yet expressed openly for fear of reprisals, that the opposite is happening: instead of heritage art being shored up "at the expense of" the new, it is heritage art that is being undermined by arts funding policies that favour emerging art forms.

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