Articles

Journal Articles

Meyrick, Julian & Barnett, Tully. (2021). From Cultural Value to Culture’s Value: The Part-To-Whole Relationship in Assessments. In K Lehman, I Fillis & M Wickham (eds) Exploring Cultural Value: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice. Emerald Publishing Limited. 25-37. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78973-515-420211004/full/html

Meyrick, Julian & Barnett, Tully. (2021). From Public Good to Public Value: Arts and Culture in a Time of Crisis. Cultural Trends. 30.1: 75-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1844542

Meyrick, Julian, Barnett, Tully, Robinson, Heather & Russell, Matt. (2019). What’s the Story? “Credible” Narrative in the Evaluation of Arts and Culture”. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. 49.6: 375-388. 10.1080/10632921.2019.1646176

 Meyrick, Julian and Barnett, Tully. (2018). After ‘What Matters?’: A reflection on the value of arts and culture and four ‘lies’ of data. Australian Art Education. 39.3: 413-426. https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=155181089454876;res=IELAPA.

Meyrick, Julian & Barnett, Tully. South Australia: Arts and Culture. In J Spoehr (ed.) South Australia: State of Transformation. Wakefield Press. 135-150.

Meyrick, Julian, Barnett, Tully and Phiddian, Robert. (2018). The conferral of value: the role of reporting processes in the assessment of culture. Media International Australia. 171.1: 80-94. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X18798704

Phiddian, Robert, et al. (2017). Counting culture to death: an Australian perspective on culture counts and quality metrics. Cultural Trends 26.2: 174-180. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09548963.2017.1324014

Barnett, Tully & Meyrick, Julian. (2017). The value of culture: A dilemma in five pictures. Griffith Review 55: 182-191. https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=766875641833673;res=IELLCC

Meyrick, Julian & Barnett, Tully. (2017). Culture without ‘world’: Australian cultural policy in the age of stupid. Cultural Trends. 26.2: 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2017.1323840

Meyrick, Julian. (2016). Telling the Story of Culture’s Value: Ideal-Type Analysis and Integrated Reporting. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 46.4: 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2016.1225619

Meyrick, Julian. (2015). Numbers, schnumbers: Total cultural value and talking about everything that we do, even culture. International Journal of Event and Festival Management 6.2: 99-110. 10.1108/IJEFM-04-2015-0021

Public scholarship pieces

• A new ‘policy imaginary’ for Australian art and culture. ArtsHub. 12 August, 2021. Tully Barnett, Julian Meyrick & Justin O’Connor. https://www.artshub.com.au/2021/08/12/a-new-policy-imaginary-for-australian-art-and-culture/
• Exit strategy: a new vision for art and culture? ArtsHub. 10 July 2021. Justin O’Connor, Julian Meyrick & Tully Barnett. https://www.artshub.com.au/2021/07/10/exit-strategy-a-new-vision-for-art-and-culture-263011/
• The limits of advocacy: arts sector told to stop worrying and be happy. The Conversation. June 18, 2021. Julian Meyrick, Tully Barnett & Justin O’Connor. https://theconversation.com/the-limits-of-advocacy-arts-sector-told-to-stop-worrying-and-be-happy-162860
• Like the care economy, arts and culture are an opportunity missed in the 2020-21 budget. The Conversation. October 7, 2020. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/like-the-care-economy-arts-and-culture-are-an-opportunity-missed-in-the-2020-21-budget-147558
• At moments like these, we need a cultural policy. The Conversation. August 7, 2020. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/at-moments-like-these-we-need-a-cultural-policy-141974
• Friday essay: the politics of dancing and thinking about cultural values beyond dollars. The Conversation. June 5, 2020. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-politics-of-dancing-and-thinking-about-cultural-values-beyond-dollars-139839
• Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it. The Conversation. April 20, 2020. https://theconversation.com/artists-shouldnt-have-to-endlessly-demonstrate-their-value-coalition-leaders-used-to-know-it-136608
• As we turn to creativity in isolation, the coronavirus is a calamity on top of an arts crisis. The Conversation. March 27, 2020. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/as-we-turn-to-creativity-in-isolation-the-coronavirus-is-a-calamity-on-top-of-an-arts-crisis-134230
• Remember the arts? Departments and budgets disappear as politics backs culture into a dead end. The Conversation. December 6, 2019. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/remember-the-arts-departments-and-budgets-disappear-as-politics-backs-culture-into-a-dead-end-128110
• Arts and culture under the Coalition: a lurch between aggression and apathy. The Conversation. April 10, 2019. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/arts-and-culture-under-the-coalition-a-lurch-between-aggression-and-apathy-114434
• Julian Meyrick on why numbers and culture don’t add up. Sydney Morning Herald. August 19, 2018. Julian Meyrick. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/julian-meyrick-on-why-numbers-and-culture-dont-add-up-20180819-h145y6.html
• Beyond bulldust, benchmarks and numbers: what matters in Australian culture. The Conversation. August 21, 2018. Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian & Tully Barnett. https://theconversation.com/beyond-bulldust-benchmarks-and-numbers-what-matters-in-australian-culture-101459
• A New Approach to Culture. The Conversation. 16 August, 2017. Julian Meyrick. https://theconversation.com/a-new-approach-to-culture-82448
• “Are we counting culture to death” https://theconversation.com/are-we-counting-culture-to-death-79580  June 22, 2017  Meyrick
• The End of Catalyst: Four Ironies” https://theconversation.com/the-end-of-catalyst-four-ironies-75928  April 11, 2017 Meyrick
• “The price of culture: thoughts from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas” The Conversation 23 Nov16
• “The new Australia Council Board has a chance to be better than the last” Conversation 13 Oct16
• “Why a scorecard of quality in the arts is a very bad idea” The Conversation 12 October, 2016
• “Why Australia needs a Chief Artist” The Conversation 9 September, 2016
• “A Marriage Made in Heaven but Living in Hell: the arts and the sciences in Australian Universities Today”. Sydney Review of Books. 19 August, 2016.
• “Raising chisel to stone, and making art” The Conversation 5 August, 2016.
• “In a glass clearly: Singapore and Australia compared” The Conversation 26 July, 2016.
• “No (is a one word poem)” The Conversation 25 May, 2016
• “Carnage in the arts: experts respond to the Australia Council cuts” The Conversation 13 May, 2016
• “Lessons for SA from Victoria’s Creative State” Indaily 12 May, 2016
• “Federal budget 2016: arts experts react” The Conversation 4 May, 2016
• “Exactly what is innovative about the word ‘innovation’?” The Conversation 3 May, 2016
• “It is a great deal easier to eviscerate an arts sector than it is to build one up” The Conversation 21 April, 2016 “Arts versus sciences: ‘the two cultures’. Indaily 16 March, 2016
• “Out with the NPEA, in with Catalyst: expert response” The Conversation 20 November, 2015
• “It’s profoundly depressing to see ‘creativity’ used as the go-to word for a flagging neo-liberalism” The Conversation6 November, 2015
• “The House Loses”. The Monthly. Oct 2015: 11-13.
• “Senate Inquiry into arts funding: Testimony and Truth in SA” The Conversation 22 September, 2015
• “Ten dos and don’ts for thinking about arts funding and the NPEA” The Conversation 18 Aug 2016
• “We have a ‘show tunes’ government with an arts policy to match” The Conversation 6 July, 2015
• “Senator Brandis’ arts budget exposes sector to fickle fashion” SMH 29 May, 2015
• “The Arts Minister has Wrenched Our Culture Away From Artists” The Conversation 15 May 15
• “The Mocking of the Modern Mind: Culture and Cartooning in the Age of Je suis Charlie Hebdo”. Australian Book Review, April 2015:47-49.
• “Adelaide is Spending Big on Arts Infrastructure – But Who Benefits” The Conversation 23 Mar15
• “SA Arts: Enough with the Numbers” Indaily 25 November, 2014
• “Tragedy is Dead in Australia, Long Live Laughter and Weather Reports” The Conversation 18.11.14
• “Carmen Sense: When Corporate Sponsors Go to the Opera” The Conversation 23 October, 2014
• “Measure for Measure: the Creative Arts and the Impact Agenda” The Conversation 13 Oct 2014
• “Oz Co Has a New Strategic Plan – Where’s Abbott’s Cultural Policy?” The Conversation 28.8.14
• “A Century After the Torching of the Louvain Library, What Have We Learnt?” The Conversation 25 August, 2014
• “Theatre Companies Don’t Produce Numbers They Produce Shows” The Conversation 6.8.14
• Think Before You Move: The Artist and the Competitive Grant System.” Supper Club, Melb, Aug14.
• “The Australia Council Must Hold Firm on Arm’s Length Funding” The Conversation 18.3.14
• “With Culture on the Free Trade Agenda we Must Protect Our Own” The Conversation 14 Feb 2014
• “Sun Tzu Says: The Cost of Culture Shows the Value of Nothing” The Conversation 18 Dec 2013
• “Should We Fund Wagner Operas or Statues of Kyle Sandilands?” The Conversation 18 Nov 2013
• “Does Australia ‘Get’ Culture” The Conversation 27 October, 2013