Local Government and Public Art

Cover of Local Government and Public Art
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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published April 2021
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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

Published April 2021
NAVA
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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

Published April 2021
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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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Published April 2021
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
ACE Open
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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published April 2021
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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

Published April 2021

Increasingly, local governments at the cutting edge are recognising the need to carefully define their role in public art and more broadly cultural development.

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Against the
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Peter Anderson

There's something about public art projects that seems to either bring out the best or the worst in artists. Looks at the 'loo with a view' on the beach front at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The project has not been without its tensions......

Published June 1998
The Enduring Moment
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Catherine Murphy

It is arguable that temporary public art is a more valid response to the transitory, dynamic and complex nature of the city and public life, more available to be critical and exploratory, than its permanent counterpart.

Published June 1998
Visual Arts Program: Festival of Perth
Review
Lavinia S Ryan

Exhibition review Visual Arts Program: Festival of Perth
February 1998

Published June 1998
Public Art at the Canberra Museum and Gallery
Feature
Jacky Talbot

In a city with so many cultural institutions focused upon the national agenda, the new Canberra Museum and Gallery is a significant symbol of the ACTs (Australian Capital Territory) increasing confidence in a local identity, interdependent with its national role.

Published June 1998
Artists' Week... Walk that Walk
Review
Stephanie Radok

Review of Artists week for the Adelaide Festival of Arts
1998

Published June 1998
Specific Times and Particular Places: Recent Public Art in Tasmania
Feature
Mary Knights

Recently there has been a surge of vigorous and challenging public art produced in Tasmania. As well as creating their own opportunities, Tasmanian artists have participated in a wide range of projects facilitated by local and State Governments, festival organisers, corporate entities and private benefactors...engaging with diverse audiences, specific times and particular places.

Published June 1998
Marking the 2000 Moment: Sydney Pulls Out the Stops
Feature
Gene Sherman

Sculpture is often considered a difficult medium. Public art is frequently controversial. Yet, public sculptural art offers the widest possible audience and the greatest opportunity (by far) to experience, within the increasingly intense landscape of our cities, the humanising and deeply satisfying impact of art and culture.

Published June 1998
Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions
Review
Michael O+Ferrall

Exhibition Review Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions Organised by the Asia Society New York
Art Gallery of Western Australia
6 February - 29 March 1998

Published June 1998
Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or More of the Same?
Feature
Courtney Kidd

The Olympic Co-ordination Authority and the Sydney City Council, the two commissioning bodies, have the power to transform the capital with their curated programs of site specific public art, some of which will have a limited life span. Ironically, in these environments where relationship to site is one of the criteria for inclusion, it is left to the artist to reconstruct the histories, to illuminate the voices demolished to make way for Olympic progress.

Published June 1998
City Provoked: These Questions and More....
Feature
Virginia Fraser

RMIT project 'City Provoked' asked questions about the nature of public art emphasising 'new genre public art' - flexibility and responsiveness, specificity and topicality, innovation, challenge, engagement, unregulated encounter. collaboration, temporality and process rather than closure.

Published June 1998
Five Hundred Sculptors in Melbourne!
Feature
Ken Scarlett

Whether Melbourne can support 500 or more sculptors is yet to be proven, but the talent is there and architects, developers and city councils seem to be much more receptive to the concept of public art.

Published June 1998
Entrepreneurs and Public Art: Private Sponsorship for Public Art Begins to Bloom in WA
Feature
Dorothy Erickson

Although the history of the west militated against private sponsorship, it began to blossom in the 1990s. This was assisted by the State Government sponsored Percent for Art Scheme. Looks at various examples of public art in Western Australia.

Published June 1998
 
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