Mumu Mike Williams
Published 01 December 2019
Adelaide Festival Centre and other venues
Published 29 November 2019
Art Gallery of South Australia and other venues
Published 28 November 2019
University of Queensland Art Museum
Published 11 October 2019
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Araluen Arts Centre
Published 07 October 2019
Samstag Museum of Art
Published 27 September 2019
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Published 15 September 2019
Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.
Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992 Art Gallery of South Australia 28 February - 19 April 1992
Published March 1992
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.
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.
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.
Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.
Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart 12 February - 22 March 1992 and touring
Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.
Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators by Alison Carroll Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991
Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.
Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.
The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.
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.
