Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design

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Between worlds: Belinda Mason and Blur Projects
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Alasdair Foster

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Body, remember: Wrap me in a sister cloak
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Ali Gumillya Baker

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Regimes of care: Concerning the afterlife of artists
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Robert Cook

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The idea of redemption: Artmaking in prison
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Alasdair Foster

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On thin ice: Creating a life beyond addiction
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Ginger Gorman

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Flesh after fifty: Changing images of older women in art
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Jacqueline Millner

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How can I live in your world? Empathic strategies in contemporary Asian art
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Reuben Keehan

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Shahidul Alam: You're blocking the sun
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Kelly Hussey-Smith

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The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.

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Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
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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.

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Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
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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.

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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.

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Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
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Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.

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Here We Go Again
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Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Published March 1992
Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions
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Ian Cook

Conservation - access, equity and future directions. Everyone is talking about the effects of the economic climate, some people are calling it a recession and others a depression.

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Cultural Diversity and the Challenges of Access
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Claudine Brown

Cultural diversity has become a key issue in the 1990s for a number of reasons. In the United States we have recently completed a census. The results of that census indicate a dramatic change in the nation's demographics.

Published March 1992
To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
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Alison Carroll

One of the things which continues to fascinate me about museums is how, despite the vast amount of talk about displaying material culture, the often personal, often idiosyncratic, often haphazard decisions about departments are very rarely mentioned. Yet these decisions are central to much of the museum's collection, display, exhibitions and research programme.

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A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
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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.

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From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions
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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.....

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Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
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Marla Guppy

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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Bad Names Improved
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Daniel Thomas

Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.

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