The Museum, the Muslim and the Infidel: K L Revisited

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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
Feature
Aaron Seeto

Published 01 September 2019
Adelaide Festival Centre
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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
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Henry Ward

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

Published 01 September 2019
UTS2
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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
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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

Critically looks at the exhibition 'Kecurangan - Infidelity' curated by Dato Shahrum Yub in Kuala Lumpur where 90% of Malaysia's population is Muslim.

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