ACF in Public

This webpage lists freely available articles, video and other media from the Australian Cultural Fields project.

An exhibition for all (white) Australians (opens in a new window) Tony Bennett, ArtsHub, 4 December 2015

Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: Here’s why (opens in a new window) David Rowe, The Conversation, 17 January 2017

Australian culture, inequalities and social divisions: Class, politics and taste (video presentation) (opens in a new window) Tony Bennett, Michelle Kelly, Greg Noble, Deborah Stevenson, Liam Magee, David Rowe, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 10 September 2020

Australians’ favourites show Aboriginal art can transcend social divisions and art boundaries (opens in a new window) Tony Bennett, The Conversation, 24 August 2020

Class Act – Where we sit? (opens in a new window) Richard Aedy, ABC Radio National, 2 April 2018

Good taste, bad taste? What your habits reveal about social class (opens in a new window) Inga Ting, Ri Liu, Nathanael Scott and Alex Palmer, ABC News, 13 April 2018

Howzat? The Ashes are on, but so is the pandemic (opens in a new window) David Rowe, The Conversation, 8 October 2021

Jane Austen, Monet and Phantom of the Opera – middlebrow culture today (opens in a new window) David Carter, The Conversation, 21 September 2020

Rugby union: played in heaven or trapped in purgatory? (opens in a new window) David Rowe, On Line Opinion, 9 October 2019

Tom Roberts anyone? A national survey finds the line in art appreciation (opens in a new window) Tony Bennett, The Conversation, 1 December 2015

When it comes to heritage, family history trumps museums (opens in a new window) Emma Waterton, The Conversation, 15 October 2020

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