Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions

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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
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Balamohan Shingade

Published 01 September 2018
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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
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Nicholas Thomas

Published 01 September 2018
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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
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Sasha Grbich

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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
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Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

Published 01 September 2018
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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
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Wes Hill

Published 01 September 2018
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YARN: The art of conversation
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Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
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Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

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Katie West: Living well
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Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

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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Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage
Feature
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
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.

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
Museums on the Edge
Editorial
Louise Dauth

Guest editor for Vol 12 No 1 Museums on the Edge. This edition was founded on a perception of a lack of any quantity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums.

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
Arthouse and Beyond
Review
Gregory Kwok-Keung Leong

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

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
Here We Go Again
Feature
Donald Brook

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Published March 1992
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)
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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.

Published March 1992
Exhibiting the Museum
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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
To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
Feature
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.

Published March 1992
 
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