Implementing Aboriginal and Multicultural Policy in the Museum Sector

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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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Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
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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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ACE Open
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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

Published 30 March 2022

Helen Andreoni writes on matters which are addressed in the report commissioned by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) by Amareswar Galla (also in this edition of Artlink).

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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
Museums and Technology: A Recession Boom?
Feature
Charles Pickett

With so many people feeling bruised and battered by the 1980s, it may seem cynical to point out that this unlamented decade also produced some new museums. These two 1980s legacies appear unrelated. On the face of it, museums are a quintessentially boom-time phenomenon, another emblem of 1980s extravagance.

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Bad Names Improved
Feature
Daniel Thomas

Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.

Published March 1992
Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)
Feature
Amareswar Galla

Background to the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia with the final report to be released by the Office of Multicultural Affairs OMA in mid 1992. See also the article by Helen Andreoni in this issue.

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The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
Feature
Shar Jones

According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?

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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
Feature
Dale Spender

Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.

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European Museums Make an Exhibition of Themselves
Feature
Philip Wright

Report on the 3rd International Salon of Museums and Exhibitions (SIME) at the Grand Palais Paris January 1992

Published March 1992
From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions
Feature
Philip Jones

Daniel Thomas provoked a distinct murmur at the 1990 CAMA Conference when he suggested that art museums have a greater capacity to disturb and move people than other cultural museums. If this is true and I think it is.....

Published March 1992
Exhibiting the Museum
Feature
Paul Carter

The recession led rash of public conferences on the theme of Australian identity raises questions about the sources of our national self-knowledge. The congregation of bureaucrats, economists, television personalities, writers and artists has a democratic ring to it but it also points to the failure of our cultural institutions - notably our museums, galleries and libraries - to embrace their responsibility to develop a regional self consciousness.

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
Here We Go Again
Feature
Donald Brook

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

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CAMA Conference: An Overview
Review
Susan Tonkin

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

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