Local Conditions: New Zealand Art

Cover of Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
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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
Feature
Ian McLean

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

Published 30 March 2022
NAVA
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The museum fell silent
Feature
Elspeth Pitt

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

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Damper is a language word for art
Feature
Dominique Chen

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The David Roche Foundation
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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

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.

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Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage
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Barry Craig

Jim Specht of the Australian Museum Sydney, has written that "public and private collections of archaeological and ethnographic specimens around the world contain tens of millions of specimens yet only a minute fraction of this total is actually held in its countries of origin" ; most of this material he says, was acquired through colonial or military occupation.

Published March 1992
Aboriginal People and Museums: Restricting Access to Increase It
Feature
Christopher Anderson

The South Australian Museum has the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Australian Aboriginal material culture. It also has a vast archive of information about that material and about other aspects of Aboriginal life in the form of photographs, films, audio tapes, diaries and other records.

Published March 1992
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.

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
Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Feature
Roger Trudgeon

Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.

Published March 1992
Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
Review
Sean Kelly

Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
12 February - 22 March 1992 and touring

Published March 1992
Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
Feature
Ian Wedde

Looks at recent issues for the National Art Gallery of New Zealand from the boardroom dismissals and judgments as well as the operations.

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
Towards the Light: The story of One New Age Gallery's Quest for Purpose and Relevance in a Changing World
Feature
John Neylon

On 23 October 2002, yet another Council of Australian Museums Associations (CAMA) ran down. Conferees were already half deep in thought about melting credit cards and distant work site desks stacked high with urgent files. Well Not exactly CAMA...

Published March 1992
Testing the Meaning of Heritage
Review
Janet Maughan

Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide South Australia
November - December 1991
Curated by Angela Tidmarsh and JVS Megaw on behalf of the Flinders University of South Australia
Catalogue edited by Ruth Megaw.

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
Museums Listings
Feature
Louise Dauth

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

Published March 1992
 
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