Who Stole the Southern Cross? A Cautionary Tale for Public Art

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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
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David Cross

Published 25 August 2021
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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published 25 August 2021
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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

Published 25 August 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
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Erin Vink

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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

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City of Unley 3
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Blue skies, blood moon
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
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Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 2021

Curator and cultural visionary Kevin Murray asks what happened to Southern Cross Station, once Spencer Street Station now lost under a morass of advertising. Where is the public art?

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