In a Barbie World

Cover of In a Barbie World
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Risky business: Engaging adolescents at the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Kylie Neagle

Published 01 September 2019
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MCAD Manila: Learning, sharing and conversation
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Joselina Cruz and Paula Acuin

Published 01 September 2019
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Museum MACAN: Critical conversations through art
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Aaron Seeto

Published 01 September 2019
Desert Mob
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Falling in love (Or is the curatorial a methodology?)
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Tara McDowell

Published 01 September 2019
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Being an artist and an art teacher
Feature
Henry Ward

Published 01 September 2019
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Trying to be at home in the world: New parameters for art education
Feature
Gert Biesta

Published 01 September 2019
NAVA
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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
Feature
Una Rey

Published 01 September 2019
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Vanishing into action: Art beyond the contemporary
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Alasdair Foster

Published 01 September 2019

Fictional Barbies (Mattel trademarked doll) are presented in the dark side of suburbia spinning a queer identity for Ken and Barbie.

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