Reading your article (“Bougie Nights and premium flights to give Sydney the edge”, September 20) on the globetrotting adventures of NSW 24-Hour Commissioner Michael Rodrigues left me cold on where the focus is now placed with cultural expression and the priorities that deliver it. Are artists of whatever persuasion saying anything any more or are we just another barnacle on the lumbering whale of the body politic? There seems to be an industry of sorts that has sprung up around the arts that makes the marketing – i.e. administration, management and economics – more important than the art itself. Why have we allowed this? It’s a greedy, needy…
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