Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing

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Numinosity

Contemporary Art Tasmania

Review
Eliza Burke

Published 15 November 2021
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Middle summer's spring and vandalism 'on fire’: Fiona Lee’s Unpreparable and Bushfire Brandalism

Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Review
Una Rey

Published 18 October 2021
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Shared House: Alex Martinis Roe and Madison Bycroft

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Sasha Grbich

Published 06 September 2021
NAVA
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FIELD NOTES

Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga, South Australia

Review
Julianne Pierce

Published 25 August 2021
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Out of Place

Drill Hall Gallery

Review
Ursula Cornelia de Leeuw

Published 25 August 2021
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Inside Elands

The Lock-Up

Review
Keri Glastonbury

Published 12 July 2021
Hyphenated Projects
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A Reason To Re-Imagine: The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives)

ACE Open

Review
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Published 10 May 2021
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Catherine Truman: Shared Reckonings

Santos Museum of Economic Botany and The Deadhouse (Mortuary Building), Botanic Gardens of South Australia

Review
Anne Brennan

Published 10 May 2021

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

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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
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
Feature
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
Here We Go Again
Feature
Donald Brook

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Published March 1992
Designing for Interesting People
Feature
Judith Brine

Andrew Andersons is, and has been, engaged to contribute to many of Australia's leading art museums as well as to other public buildings and spaces. His work might be described as adaptive; accommodating to the style and typology of the major buildings on which he has worked as well as responding to the varied views of curators with whom he has co-operated closely when designing galleries.

Published March 1992
Ordinary Otherness
Review
Stephanie Radok

Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992
Art Gallery of South Australia
28 February - 19 April 1992

Published March 1992
Abel Tasman at Dunedin
Feature
Joanna Mendelssohn

Looks at the exhibition 'Terra Australis Incognita' at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Abel Tasman's discovery.

Published March 1992
Arthouse and Beyond
Review
Gregory Kwok-Keung Leong

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

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
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
Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
Feature
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.

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
 
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