when arts organisations accept donations, there is always a price to pay
- Written by Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
The Sydney Festival opens today under a cloud. Several artists and arts organisations have withdrawn from the festival over the Israeli Embassy’s sponsorship of the dance work Decadance, by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin.
The crazy thing is the value of the sponsorship in question. A$20,000 is very small in the context of the...





