Towards a Legitimate Interest

The most important questions that arose from ARX3 related to the issue of legitimacy of interest. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Vivienne Binns, Anne Kirker and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

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Dialogue with Thailand

Interview format with Dr Poshyananda One of Four views on the exchange. See also the articles by Vivienne Binns, Ian Howard and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

Anne Kirker

The Ham Museum ARCO 1992

Critically examines the 11th manifestation of the international art fair ARCO in Madrid. Photographs of the art fair included in the article.

Ian North

Aboriginal Art, the Nation State Suburbia

In Englishwe use the word 'country' in two main senses: to refer to nation states, and to speak about rural lands beyond the big cities and their suburbs. In Australia there is historically a third zone out past the country; the now quickly shrinking Outback.

Peter Sutton

Arts and the Economy?

Just recently I was giving a lecture to a large group of arts people when a person in the audience had a go at me for talking about the economy of the arts and not about art. I, too, am very conscious of the intellectual dilemma in this regard.

Max Bourke

The Artist, the Gallery and the Recession

In thinking about the repercussions of the recession for artists and galleries, I am worried that our dismay at the present hardship and heartbreak may blind us to the fundamental recession related changes to the artist-gallery system which tend to the detriment of artists and forever endanger the quality and excitement of the Australian art scene.

Geoffrey Legge

The Australia Shop -- EXPO 92 Seville

The Australian Government's decision to participate in Expo 92 in Seville, the biggest Expo this century, has culminated in a presence recently described in a 'Best of Expo Guide' as "high spirited in mood and one of the most distinctive pavilions at Expo."

Marjorie Johnson

What is Australian Work?

I am often asked where I originally come from. And, if I am in a wicked mood, I will try to embarass the questioner with some non-answer. A persistent enquirer will ignore the flippancy and further qualify their question by rephrasing the terminology to ask whether I was born in Australia (which incidentally, was the form the question was usually couched in up to the 1980s when issues of multiculturalism introduced a so-called obscure politeness.

Susan Cohn

Art, Sports Stars and the Depression: Knocking at the Door of the Special World

Our sports stars are successful because they are not burdened by funding programs which dribble a meagre supply to an army of unknown novices....the arts need radical strategies to help them survive the recession and achieve greater audience participation. (this article is responded to by Norm Austin, the Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of NSW).

Nelson English

Uncertainly Thinking

Exhibition review Blink Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide May 1992

Catherine Lumby

Demystifying Art Criticism

Book review Art Connections Jenny Aland and Max Darby Heinemann, Melbourne 1991 RRP $29.95

Catherine Speck

There's Magic in your Hands

Looks at the artist in residence program for Thancoupie at the Hamley Bridge Primary School South Australia in May 1992.

Karen Brown

Between the Clues Lies the Evidence

Exhibition review Suzanne Treister Post West Gallery 22 - 31 May 1992

Catherine Lumby

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