Setting the cultural agenda: The Monthly one-on-one with Tony Burke
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The Relationship Between the Artist and the Institution
Every portfolio I've had has a neat match to arts. The only one where I didn't manage to keep the portfolio, Mark Dreyfus got it from me for three years, was when I had finance. But ultimately, cultural policy, by definition, needs to reach every portfolio, whether I hold it or not. Two of the five pillars are around the centrality of the artist, on the one hand, and the importance of institutions on the other. You talk about the ways in which in the arts, particularly in recent years, there's been a sense of people competing for the same pie,. often at each other's expense.
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