On the 22 March 2020, The Commonwealth Government announced its second stage of its economic stimulus package to support the economy at this precarious time. These measures complement and in some cases replace announcements made on the 11 March. Measures involve the following: Coronavirus supplement This consists of an additional $550 a fortnight for those […]
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Covid-19 Federal and Victorian Assistance Updates There have been some more announcements from various Governments to fill in more of the gaps around the assistance packages to help people in lockdowns in both Victoria and NSW. Federal The Federal Government has announced that there has been an increase in the amount of disaster payments being […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein Taxation treatment of the arts is one of the many issues that have been neglected by governments of all persuasions over the last eighteen to twenty years. Now it is time to start a serious conversation about tax reform for the arts. Following on from the wise and timely comments made by […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein On my last visit to Sydney over the Queen’s Birthday Weekend, I travelled off my normal well-worn track of Paddington and Woollahra to the newly relocated galleries in the south of Sydney. After the demise of the Danks Street precinct – which is now a construction site for apartments – it is […]
Written by: Evan Lowenstein I have just spent the best part of Sunday afternoon reading Associate Professor Josephine Caust’s wonderfully comprehensive Discussion Paper written for Platform Papers (The New Platform Papers No. 2, March 2022 Edited by Julian Meyrick) – Arts, Culture and Country. In this article Professor Caust has most successfully described the years of […]
Written by: Evan Lowenstein As part of Lowensteins’ commitment to the arts and improving the cultural climate of Australia, I have become involved with two senior academics from Melbourne University to put together an ARC Linkage project proposal for reform of the visual arts sector in Australia. This proposal will take the form of research into […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein For this edition I invited Emeritus Professor Chris Wallace-Crabbe from Melbourne University to review a very interesting book I read that is an excellent source of history about the genesis of the commercial aspects of the Australian art world. In Inside the Art Market: Australia’s Galleries, A History 1956-1976 written by Dr […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein As I am sitting here in my home office, for many weeks on end, I have had plenty of time to reflect on what the pandemic has meant on a personal level to me, my family and friends, clients and work colleagues. I think it has led to much introspection and by […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein Photos by: Evan Lowenstein After not attending for two years it was a great pleasure to be able to travel to the Art Basel Hong Kong Art Fair that covered a whole week of events from the 21 to 25 March 2017 at the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. An interesting aspect to this […]
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Written by: Evan Lowenstein Photos by: Evan Lowenstein Once again I had the privilege of travelling to Hong Kong for the sixth iteration of ART Basel, held from the 27 to 31 March 2018. It was a marvellous opportunity for many international art galleries to showcase their artists to an international audience of mainly Chinese and Asian […]