Inflecting the Museum

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Karla Dickens: A Dickensian Sideshow

Lismore Regional Gallery

Review
Djon Mundine OAM

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Hardenvale: Our Home in Absurdia

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

Review
Sam Bowker

Published 29 January 2021
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David Keeling: Stranger
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Seán Kelly

Published 04 January 2021
Guildhouse
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Opening remarks: Ann Newmarch Survey

Newmarch Gallery

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Janet Maughan

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Bryan Foong: The ladder is now a ...

ANCA Gallery, Canberra

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Shaune Lakin

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Video art during and after the pandemic: 2020 Limestone Coast Video Art Festival

The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre, Mount Gambier

Review
Eve Sullivan

Published 08 December 2020
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I want a world
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Tara McDowell

Published 30 November 2020
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In review: The Partnershipping Project

Burnie Regional Art Gallery

Review
Pat Hoffie interviews Greg Lehman

Published 30 November 2020

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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Wer ist Unschuldig?
Editorial
Juliette Peers

This issue of Artlink meanders (with kitschy loucheness rather than formalist stringency) around 'taste' bad and good, the workings of taste and various permutations of cultural expression in present day Australia. Kitsch is scrutinised.

Published December 1995
If Aquarium Gravel Is So Bad For You, How Come It Tastes So Good?
Feature
Shaw Hendry

In the trading card world there are collectors, dealers, curators, critics, interested observers, and of course various magazines. Does this world sound familiar? Looks at the role of collecting...

Published December 1995
Motor-Cross Dressing
Feature
Glenice Lesley Mathews

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

Published December 1995
Museum of Shopping
Feature
Clare Martin

Kitsch is a kind of creole. It quotes and mixes references from quite unrelated sources, dresses in wildly unsuitable materials, then tries to insinuate itself using childhood wiles.

Published December 1995
Boys and Girls: Pierre et Gilles' Sydney Mardi Gras Poster
Feature
Leigh Raymond

Examines the 1995 poster for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. How appropriate though, at the moment when Mardi Gras had successfully commodified itself as a cultural event, that its key representation should be through international glamour product photography.

Published December 1995
The Taste Factor
Feature
Christopher Heathcote

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.

Published December 1995
Delma's Collection
Feature
Emma Hopton

Collections of any kind require patience, luck, money, space, time and dedication.....

Published December 1995
Kitsch or Kind: Representations of Aborigines in Popular Art
Feature
Glenn R Cooke

Much contemporary Aboriginal art functions in the inappropriate melding of two visual art traditions and is kitsch within the given meaning within the article.

Published December 1995
Tamworth
Feature
Judith Ahern

The days of the Tamworth Festival are marked with ceremonies. Stars place their hands into cement and history in the Hands of Fame Park. At the rear of Maguire's pub the popular alternative Noses of Fame honours famous noses.

Published December 1995
Reathing, Writhing and Fainting in Coils: Richard Grayson
Review
Linda Marie Walker

Exhibition review Received
Richard Grayson
Greenaway Art Gallery
Adelaide South Australia
12 July - 6 August 1995

Published December 1995
Kings of Kitsch: Big Things
Feature
John Cross

Big things have the power to make real the stuff of dreams. They have the power to make us stop at places we would never have dreamed of visiting. Grand kitsch is both art and beyond.

Published December 1995
Kitschville - The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Feature
Craig Judd

...But the Mardi Gras will always be a child of the seventies. Remember that mantra 'the personal is political'. In spite of the co-option and mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay culture this wonderful spectacularly amateurish display (of difference) cannot help but be a politicised intervention.

Published December 1995
 
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