Art and Racism: Inter-National Issues

The way that I want to convey that meaning [racism] here is to use a small number of relatively random examples of current art/race = art/power debates from around the world. They give a flavour of the issues. They have obvious relevance to Australia's relationship to the rest of the world, as well as to relationships within Australia.

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Cultural Diversity and Public Galleries

Written with Joseph Eisenberg. The National Association for the Visual Arts [NAVA] is currently sponsoring a project on 'Multiculturalism and the immigrant artist in Australian visual culture'. Part of the study focuses on the role of public galleries in appreciating, exhibiting, and acquiring the work of Australian artists from non- English speaking backgrounds [NESB].

Janis Wilton

Ethnicity and Excellence in the Arts

One of the leading debates in Cultural Studies around the world deals with the issues of cultural difference or ethnicity in relation to concepts of a national culture.

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A New Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts Program for South Australia

In December 1990 the South Australian Government announced a new 'Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts' Program to encourage major arts organisations in receipt of government funding to increase their activities for people from linguistic and culturally diverse backgrounds.

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List of Resource Material for the Arts in Multicultural Australia

A great starting point for more research in this area. List prepared by Dr Helen Andreoni, of the School of Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies, University of New England.

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Juggling the Roles

Exhibition Review: An Art and Working Life Project Hosted by the Working Women's Centre Prospect Gallery South Australia March 1991

Jude Adams

A Letter from Berlin

Hossein Valamanesh writes from Berlin hoping that this issue of Artlink will help in the understanding of the multicultural nature of Australian Culture and not assist in any way in making pigeon holes to safely classify the issue.

Hossein Valamanesh

Bring Your Own and After...Migrant Publishing

It is the responsibility of Australian Collections to preserve this material - correspondence and manuscripts as well as printed texts - in many languages, not as exotic flowers of 'accented' literature, but as integral parts of the history and literature of multicultural Australia.

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'...The Divinity of Optimism', Le Thanh Nhon at Acacia Centre

Le Thanh Nhon and the Acacia Indo-Chinese Children's Centre.

May Lam

Festival of Perth Visual Arts Conference

Exhibition Review The Emperor's New Clothes March 1-3 1991

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Backyard Culture

Questions of memory, history and identity in the work of Leandro Salomone.

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4 Artists from WA

Looks at the art practice of four artists in Western Australia - Patrizia Tonello, Alex Spremberg, Cathy Cinanni and Karl Wiebke. Illustrations of their independent works included.

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Observations of a Chinese Painter

Tang Qizhong is a painter and Fine Arts educator from China. He writes about his art practice and the relationship between art practices and institutions in China and Australia.

Tang Qizhong

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