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
City of Unley 3
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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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The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
Feature
Shar Jones

According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?

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
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
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
Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)
Feature
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
Independent Curators
Book Review
Elizabeth Cross

Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators
by Alison Carroll
Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991

Published March 1992
Museums Listings
Feature
Louise Dauth

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

Published March 1992
If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
Feature
Nelson English

I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

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

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

Published March 1992
Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Feature
Roger Trudgeon

Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.

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