21 December 2022
Museums Of Vandalism, Doomsayers, And Climate Catastrophe
This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia on or about 21 December 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. It is probably fair to say that the last few months in the life
27 April 2022
Not Art For The Masses
Australia Council for the Arts seems to be wasting taxpayers’ money on obscure fringe artists The Morrison government’s announcement that it has appointed five new Board members to the Australia Council for the Arts will do nothing to fix the Council’s cultural problem which is so deep rooted that the only solution is to abolish it altogether. Since 2016, the
7 November 2019
Taxpayer-Funded ARC Grants Biased Towards Identity Politics
Australian Research Council (ARC) grants to the humanities are disproportionately biased towards identity politics, according to a new research report released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. The Humanities in Crisis: An Audit of Taxpayer-Funded ARC Grants investigates taxpayer-funded ARC humanities grants awarded to Australian universities since 2002. The report finds that between 2002 and
20 July 2017
Remember When Art Was Beautiful?: A New Book Launches A Spirited Attack On The Identity Politics Of Contemporary Art
Corrupted by identity politics, high culture in the West is no longer about the search for truth or beauty, but merely a tool for the advancement of leftist social engineering. So argues Wall Street Journal editorial writer Sohrab Ahmari in The New Philistines, a polemic about contemporary art. Ahmari’s target is not any contemporary art form or style. Instead, he
14 October 2016
Blue Poles: Sell This Monument To Madness
Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test, but because it of what has come to represent to the Left. Last week, Senator James Paterson suggested that the painting, currently on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, should be sold to the highest bidder in
5 August 2016
Degas – The Impressionist Who Rejected Impressionism
The National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition Degas: A New Vision, is the most comprehensive collection of the works by the French painter and sculptor, Edgar Degas(1834-1917) since 1988. There are some wonderful individual pieces to inspect in this brilliantly curated exhibition and I urge you to see before it ends on September 18th. And as you learn more about Degas,
