Inflecting the Museum

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The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting
Review
John Kean

Quentin Sprague
Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2020

 

Published 29 June 2020
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Desert Aboriginal art centres adapt to the pandemic
Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 14 May 2020
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2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres

Art Gallery of South Australia | Adelaide Botanic Garden

Review
Gemma Weston

Published 05 April 2020
UNSW
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2020 Adelaide//International

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Chloé Wolifson

Published 29 March 2020
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Cementa19

Kandos, New South Wales

Review
Marco Marcon

Published 05 February 2020
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Therese Ritchie: Burning Hearts

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Review
Chips Mackinolty

Published 05 February 2020
NAVA
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Kulinmaya! Keep Listening Everybody!

Mumu Mike Williams

Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 01 December 2019
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OzAsia 2019

Adelaide Festival Centre and other venues

Review
Anna O'Loughlin

Published 29 November 2019

Exhibition review Litteraria Simryn Gill and Robert MacPherson Artists in residence at the South Australian Museum 16 September - 31 December 1995

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When I was an art critic, I quickly grew to dislike the word 'taste'. It was a convenient tool used to dismiss reviews by people who didn't like what I had to say. Whenever I delivered a negative crit upon a widely revered artist, or a positive crit on a very minor figure, they complained that I was allowing my taste to undermine my professionalism.

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Motor-Cross Dressing
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Issues of stereo-typing, conforming behaviour and fun and practicality are looked at in an observation of an MG driver.

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