Dinner party answers every arts believer needs

Arm yourself with smart comebacks to the people who insist on telling you arts funding is a waste of money.
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Smile sweetly and answer sharply like Lady Violet in Downton Abbey

​The arts are important to more and more people. As an industry, ​the arts employs more people than mining. Study after study connects art with health and innovation and the economy. And yet, there are still too many lazy responses to the arts in the mass-market media.

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Esther Anatolitis
About the Author
Esther Anatolitis is Deputy Chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts and Honorary Associate Professor at RMIT School of Art.