Museums For the 21st Century: Entertainments or Big Challenging Ideas?

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Nagesh's recipe for Biryani
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Nagesh Seethiah

Published 01 December 2019
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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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Duchamp and Australia: In opposition
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Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

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The Brazilian moment: A picture gallery in transformation
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John Mateer

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Crafty prepping
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Sera Waters

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2019: The year of our cyberpunk future
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Darren Jorgensen

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Art in the time of the burning
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Ian Milliss

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019

Museums both reinforce ones views and challenge them, encouraging innovative connections we hadnt thought of before, driving us on to expanded understandings. Griffin addresses some of the controversies surrounding museums in the age of technology.

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