Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship

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Writing through the archive: the art writing marathon
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Jacqueline Millner
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Ethics and aesthetics: D Harding, Luciano Benetton and Terra Incognita: inclusiveness is a good way
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Ian McLean

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In conversation: Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey
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Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey

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The David Roche Foundation
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The museum fell silent
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Elspeth Pitt

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Kings of wishful thinking: internet irony and its illusionary critics
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Olivia Bennett

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Damper is a language word for art
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Dominique Chen

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Desert Mob
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Someone has to be innocent: a reflection on the post-2020 art critic
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John Mateer

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A case for writing contemporary art history
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Aneta Trajkoski

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One of the curious things about very large cities is the gulf that exists between the inner city and the outer suburbs or hinterland.

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A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
Review
Fotis Kapetopoulos

Exhibition review An Interrupted Dialogue. One of the first international experimental art exhibitions to be shown outside Hungary since the end of World War 2. Grayson worked with Suzy Meszoly of the Soros Fine Art Documentation Centre of Budapest in 1988 during the time when changes were sweeping through Central Europe.

Published March 1992
Some Thoughts on Museum Futures
Feature
Des Griffin

The quintessential purpose of Museums is to encourage and instil the joy of intellectual and aesthetic discovery. Abstracted partly from a public lecture entitled 'Ideas -Heresies even - for Museum Futures' given in Perth for the Western Australian Government Department of the Arts Task Force on Museums in August 1991.

Published March 1992
A New Museum for Victoria
Feature
Geoffrey Maslen

In the first project of its kind, private investors will provide half the money needed to build the Museum of Victoria at a new site on the Yarra River.

Published March 1992
Independent Curators
Book Review
Elizabeth Cross

Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators
by Alison Carroll
Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991

Published March 1992
Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
Feature
Viv Szekeres

Museum exhibitions tend not to challenge visitors with critical perspectives, contradictory points of view or subject matter which is controversial. I would like to explore different ways that conflict might be included in exhibitions and used to further our understanding of the past.

Published March 1992
If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
Feature
Nelson English

I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

Published March 1992
A Continuum of Maori Art
Feature
Mina McKenzie

Whatu Aho Rua - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Festival. The exhibition Whatu Aho Rua 'weaving with two strands' organised by the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a departure form exhibitions usually seen in New Zealand Galleries.

Published March 1992
Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
Feature
Robert Leonard

Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.

Published March 1992
CAMA Conference: An Overview
Review
Susan Tonkin

Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.

Published March 1992
Arthouse and Beyond
Review
Gregory Kwok-Keung Leong

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

Published March 1992
Heritage Collections not Museums
Feature
Daniel Thomas

In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.

Published March 1992
A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt
Feature
Christopher Saines

De-accessioning is too often characterised as an ill-wind, blowing through the vast and mostly undisturbed reaches of our cultural store-houses capriciously violating the integrity of our collections.

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