Creative Australia’s backflip on Venice Biennale representatives exposes deep governance failures
- Written by Samuel Cairnduff, Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
The reinstatement of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives for the 2026 Venice Biennale closes a bruising recent cultural episode and exposes the fragility of the systems meant to protect artistic freedom in Australia.
An independent review released this week confirms this was not simply a...