arts boards – LARSEN

Arts board governance under fire: Avoiding reactive decision-making

When arts boards panic and become reactive, they lose clarity and predictive governance suffers, Anna Spargo Ryan writes for the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Are Australia’s arts governance models setting us up to fail?

The actions of Adelaide Festival’s former board prompt important questions about the governance of statutory authority arts boards.

‘Masterclass in poor governance’: what was the board’s role in the end of Adelaide Writers’ Week?

I was interviewed by Kim Goodwin for The Conversation on the cancellation of the 2026 Adelaide Writers Week.

Arts boards in crisis: how have we landed here, yet again?

‘There isn’t a single arts organisation in Australia who shouldn’t be paying attention to the issues of censorship, artistic freedom of expression, financial sustainability and broader arts sector survival right now.’