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South Australia Illustrated: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise
Curator: Jane Hylton Art Gallery of South Australia 2 June – 5 August 2012
ARIna spaces for the unexpected
Curator Brianna Munting, who co-organised (with Georgie Meagher) the We Are Here Symposium of ARIs in Sydney in 2011, describes the new ARI online resource ARIna and asks: "Perhaps what we really need is to spend a lot more time asking each other whether our architectures and images, our hierarchies and ambitions, our ideas and narratives, are really any good for us or simply cultural fictions?"
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
Why the Guerilla Girls don't have to be naked to get into the Met
Curator Laura Castagnini interviews Guerilla Girls founding members Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz on the past, the present, the legacy of feminist activism and the institutionalisation of experimental practices.
Artist run spaces of the future
Christopher Lee Kennedy plays inside a living museum called Elsewhere, and is pursuing a PhD at the University of North Carolina. Here he culture-jams with Erica Curry of Lousiana, Paula Damasceno of Brazil, Aislinn Pentecost-Farrin of North Carolina, Wythe Marschall and Ethan Gould of New York, and Capp Larsen of Halifax, California, about their experiences of artist-run spaces, their passions, joys, discontents and plasticities.
Contemporary Australia: Women
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane 21 April – 22 July 2012
Theatre of the World
Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in collaboration with TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), Hobart 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013
On seeing the pattern
Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University and Founder of the Experimental Art Foundation, Donald Brook takes on the March 2012 issue of Artlink titled 'Pattern and Complexity' and guest edited by well-known curator Margot Osborne.
Camouflage: Visual Art and Design in Disguise
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland 15 June – 7 October 2012