The Art of Gift Giving...

New museums, new agendas

Vol 22 no 4

A nation's museums are an index of its understanding of itself. We examine the controversies and debates surrounding new museums in Canberra and Melbourne which have challenged the conventional wisdom. Charles Esche proposes that a new breed of less tightly prescriptive art institutions can be catalysts for changing societal attitudes. Also new practice in digital media, fashion as art, profiles of Peter Callas, Lawrence Daws, Julia Ciccarone, Kate Breakey, and Robin Best. Reviews of Documenta and Site and Sight in Singapore.

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Heather Wallace, feature

The magnificent donations made to museums, galleries and libraries in the last 12 months were made possible by the Commonwealth's Cultural Gifts Program, an initiative that encourages Australian patronageof the arts by offering attractive tax incentives to donors. Wallace here presents a short expression of appreciation.

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Article Index

Articles in this issue

Artrave: Artrave
Editorial: A New Catch-Up - Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry
Feature: A Stitch in Time
Feature: Asia Pacific Triennial 2002 - Starry Night
Feature: Breathing/Diving/Dreaming/Dancing to the BEAP in Perth (You Can't Buy These Emotions off the Hollywood Shelf)
Feature: Cacophony + Cramp for the Sensory Bundle
Feature: Documenta 11 Takes On Masters of the Universe
Feature: Fashion Infiltrates the Galleries
Feature: I Wonder Where the Public Art Went?
Feature: Jewel Mackenzie: Gemini Paintings
Feature: Lawrence Daws: From Mandala to Full Circle
Feature: Marine Nature in Porcelain: The Recent Work of Robin Best
Feature: Museums For the 21st Century: Entertainments or Big Challenging Ideas?
Feature: Scaling Up at ACCA
Feature: Singapore Opens Up to the World - Site + Sight: First Major International Show
Feature: Small Deaths
Feature: The Art of Gift Giving...
Feature: The Generosity of a Light Touch
Feature: The Possibility Forum - Institutional Change and Modest Proposals
Feature: Uncertain Terrain
Review: 19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award
Review: 21st Century Chairs
Review: African Marketplace and Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers
Review: Arid Arcadia: art of the Flinders Ranges
Review: Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967 - 2002
Review: Christina Waterson: Recent
Review: Clearing
Review: Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters
Review: Long Arm Drawing 1992-2002: Jan Senbergs
Review: Mnemotech : sense + scape + time + memory
Review: Seven Warehouses
Review: Shell Fremantle Print Award
Review: The SALA Festival
Review: Ti Parks recent work at Pinacotheca