CAMA Conference: An Overview

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Agatha Gothe-Snape: Trying to Find Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

Review
Alana Hunt

Published 15 September 2019
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Other Suns: Cult Sci-fi Cinema and Art

Fremantle Arts Centre

Review
Francis Russell

Published 23 August 2019
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Angela Valamanesh: About Being Here

Jam Factory

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Liv Spiers

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FEM-aFFINITY

Arts Project Australia

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Jacqueline Millner

Published 23 August 2019
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Rachel O'Reilly: The Gas Imaginary | Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscape

UNSW Galleries

Review
Ann Finegan

Published 23 August 2019
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The Housing Question

Penrith Regional Gallery

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Chloé Wolifson

Published 23 August 2019
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Noriko Nakamura: The force that the warrior adopts during the evolution of the pale pink rose

CAVES

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Amelia Wallin

Published 11 July 2019
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The Hidden Garden: Travis de Vries

Gallery Lane Cove

Review
Djon Mundine

Published 03 July 2019

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

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Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory
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Naomi Cass

Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 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.

Published March 1992
Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
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Patrick Filmer-Sankey

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.

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
Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
Feature
Andrew Montana

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

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
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
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
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
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
Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
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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
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.

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