A few days ago we reported on the downgrading of The Humanities in Australia, from without and within. More such :
National Gallery of Australia to shed staff and slash acquisitions from 3,000 to 100 a year
Stephanie Convery / The Guardian
Tuesday 23 June 2020
...that the organisation would be undergoing a restructure to “modernise” the gallery and ensure its continuing sustainability.
The restructure requires shedding between 10% and 12% of its more than 300 staff to make up the remaining $1.5m of a $3.26m shortfall...
The gallery is simultaneously planning to dramatically cut its art acquisitions as part of a strategy to focus on “masterworks rather than volume”.
The gallery is simultaneously planning to dramatically cut its art acquisitions as part of a strategy to focus on “masterworks rather than volume”.
....this year the gallery controversially spent almost half its annual acquisitions budget on the $6.8m artwork Cube by the US artist Jordan Wolfson...
photograph : Lukas Coch/AAP
The Debt Collection, Canberra
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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