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The Balloon Man Cometh: A Salutary Tale
Art and Design Education A brief overview of the Australian Art and Design School phenomena today suggests that, given that educational philosophies are couched in the language of diversity, they still appear to be dominated by a referential and almost umbilical attachment to the early moderns...
Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert by Geoffrey Bardon
Book review Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert
By Geoffrey Bardon
McPhee Gribble 1991
RRP $50.
Art?
Art and Design Education For 2 years now, being busy about other things, I have not thought much about art education; and this abstinence seems not to have been injurious to anybody. But the thing nags. It ought to be possible to say something so manifestly enlightened and reasonable about art education that every rational person will agree and productive action will follow as the night follows the day.
Torso, Group Show: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle
Exhibition review Torso: Gray Street Workshop
25 July - 18 August 1991
Bite: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle Artzone
31 August - 11 September 1991
Film Theory Seminars
Exhibition review The Power of Perversion, Film Theory Seminars
Media Resource Centre Adelaide South Australia
April 8 - May 13 1991
Rites of Passage - Queensland Mergers
Looks at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education's art programmes more popularly known as the Kelvin Grove Art School and the Carseldine expressive arts department who joined forces in May 1990 on the occasion of the amagamation of B C A E with the larger entity of Queensland University of Technology.
Gavin Blake
Exhibition review Gavin Blake: Immaculate Projections
North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
23 July - 8 August 1991
Jokes and Jelly
Exhibition review Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
University of Western Australia
April 21 - May 26 1991
Simon Gevers: 'perf' Steven Holland: 'a plaintive "Plee-erk"'
Amalgamation chaos at College of Art
Art and Design Education A student view See also article by Effemera Phaxx in this issue of Artlink.
South of No North
Exhibition review Dick Bett Gallery
Hobart Tasmania
17 July - early August 1991
Richard Flanagan Curator
A Cornucopia? Arts Publishing in New Zealand
Looks at the impressive range of publications on the visual arts in New Zealand. This is not an exhaustive overview but a thumbnail sketch of this large and diverse topic.