Big wave: Desert Country

Legendary curator John Kean looks at three recent large exhibitions of Aboriginal art - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, Desert Country and Living Water, and questions whether the same spirit sings in all of them.

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Editorial: Making history

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Editorial: ®ECLAIMED closing the gap of radical apathy

Daniel Browning takes a long hard look at the gap of apathy in Australia.

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Into Cosmos: Adelaide Festival Artists’ Week 2012

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The elephant in the room: public art in Brisbane

Artist-activist Fiona Foley recounts a recent incident of the commissioning of a public art work for Kurilpa (place of the kuril or native water rat). Kurilpa is the cultural precinct where GOMA is located. Foley imagines works by prominent Queensland Aboriginal artists dotted along that place.

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Chiharu Shiota: State of Being Sue Saxon and Jane Becker: All that is solid melts into air

TarraWarra Museum of Art 25 February - 27 May 2012

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Artefacts of authenticity

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Andrew McQualter: A partial index

Daine Singer, Melbourne 27 January - 3 March 2012

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Presences in the Riverland: Nici Cumpston

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