“It is time for everyone who cares about arts and culture to get out of the brace position and come alive to a dialogue about their inherent value.”
In Arts Professional (UK) Julian Meyrick discusses the problems associated with assessing cultural value arguing that we “are stuck in a financially reductionist ‘value = money’ orbit. We should be examining people’s experiences of culture, and the meaning that comes from those experiences”.
The article can be accessed here.
Issues raised are discussed in the recent book What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture published by Monash University Publishing. Authored by Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett. The book is available for purchase here.