Inflecting the Museum

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Marco Fusinato: DESASTRES

Australian Pavilion, 59th La Biennale di Venezia

Review
Melissa Bianca Amore

Published 15 June 2022
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QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection

National Gallery of Victoria

Review
Callum McGrath

Published 30 May 2022
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Highlights from BlakLight: First Nation art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Review
Timmah Ball

Published 04 May 2022
NAVA
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Neoteric

Adelaide Railway Station

Review
Belinda Howden

Published 04 May 2022
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Language is a River

Monash University Museum of Art

Review
Marielle Soni

Published 30 March 2022
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Art Writing in Crisis

Edited by Brad Haylock & Megan Patty Sternberg Press, 2021, 288 pages

Review
Una Rey

Published 30 March 2022
The David Roche Foundation
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Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings

Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh (eds.) Griffith University Art Museum and Power Publications, 2020 66 images, including colour plates 216 pages

Review
Wes Hill

Published 30 March 2022
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Tina Havelock Stevens: Nature Extemporize

The Substation

Review
Elizabeth Pearce

Published 15 December 2021

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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Bigs R Us
Feature
Paul Ryan

Australians have a natural thirst for objects of grand scale, however ridiculous their theme or location or context. From big sandfly, big axe to big oyster and beyond, we are the big desert island that experiences big wets and big dries, little wonder someone made a Big Tap to remind us...we are big drinkers.

Published December 1995
Destiny Deacon: It's Been Ages Since We Last Marched
Feature
Jo Holder

You can hear her on the radio and see her on the television and contemplate her in better State galleries. Pluralist par excellence, artist, writer and film-maker Destiny Deacon has been blazing away on visual and linguistic fronts since premiering 'Koori Rocks Gub Words' in 'Pitcha Mi Koori' (1990).

Published December 1995
Thought Police Versus Life: Extracts from an Interview with Ray Hughes
Feature
Tony Twigg

Discussion with the artist Ray Hughes about issues that have impacted on his art practice. Biographical details also included.

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
Made in WA: A Sculptor's Alternative Practice
Feature
Robyn Taylor

Although well known in regional art histories, Western Australian sculptor Edward Kohler has a far wider importance. Economic survival led him to blend popular and high art long before it was standard practice. With the Piccadilly Theatre reliefs of 1938, the sheer exuberance and infectious quality of a positive (if unconscious) kitsch aesthetic entered professional Australian art 60 years ago: Hollywood meets Olympia.

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
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
The Black Swan of Western Australian-ness
Feature
Dorothy Erickson

Since 1829, the inhabitants of the western third of Australia have identified more closely with the black swan than the kangaroo. The swan was and is to be found on a wide range of items from buildings to letterheads and furry toys. It crosses class boundaries...

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
Image Bank
Feature
Juliette Peers

Collection of images with artists statements. Artists featured: Katanya Shanzy, Anne Graham, Geoffrey Seelander, Simon Duncan, Pierre Cavalan, Stefan Szonyi, Cliff Burt, Andrea McNamara, Karen Ferguson, Constanze Zikos, Jandee Amar Leddar, Leon Pericles, Meryn Jones, Annie Taylor, Ex de Medici and Ian Mowbray.

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
Worms and Roses
Feature
M E McGuire

The first Australian garden books put vegetables first but by the mid 19th century the language of flowers was in vogue. Gardens, flowers and art...

Published December 1995
 
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