Museums Listings

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The five phases of Aboriginal art
Feature
Djon Mundine

 

Published 01 September 2005
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palawa kani: Expressing the power of language in art and the museum context
Feature
Zoe Rimmer and Theresa Sainty

Published 01 June 2020
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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
Feature
Rebecca Carland

Published 01 June 2020
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
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Looking for murnong
Feature
Lou Bennett and Romaine Moreton

Published 01 June 2020
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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
Feature
Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet

Published 01 June 2020
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Making Inuit art in the moment
Feature
asinnajaq

Published 01 June 2020
Curiocity Brisbane (Mulberry Seed Comms)
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Notes from Kahoʻolawe, Ka Paeʻāina o Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea
Feature
Drew Kahuaina Broderick and Josh Tengan

Published 01 June 2020
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Weaving memory, living embodiment
Feature
Freja Carmichael

Published 01 June 2020

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

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Bad Names Improved
Feature
Daniel Thomas

Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.

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
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
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
CAMA Conference: An Overview
Review
Susan Tonkin

Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 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
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
Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions
Feature
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.

Published March 1992
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
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
Here We Go Again
Feature
Donald Brook

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Published March 1992
 
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