From Curiosities to the Hyper-Real: Notes on Context in Museum Anthropology Exhibitions

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

Published 15 December 2021
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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

Published 15 December 2021
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

Published 15 December 2021
Guildhouse
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

Published 15 December 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

Published 15 December 2021

Daniel Thomas provoked a distinct murmur at the 1990 CAMA Conference when he suggested that art museums have a greater capacity to disturb and move people than other cultural museums. If this is true and I think it is.....

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Exhibiting the Museum
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Paul Carter

The recession led rash of public conferences on the theme of Australian identity raises questions about the sources of our national self-knowledge. The congregation of bureaucrats, economists, television personalities, writers and artists has a democratic ring to it but it also points to the failure of our cultural institutions - notably our museums, galleries and libraries - to embrace their responsibility to develop a regional self consciousness.

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Heritage Collections not Museums
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Daniel Thomas

In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.

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A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt
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Christopher Saines

De-accessioning is too often characterised as an ill-wind, blowing through the vast and mostly undisturbed reaches of our cultural store-houses capriciously violating the integrity of our collections.

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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
Feature
Dale Spender

Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.

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Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
Feature
Marla Guppy

One of the curious things about very large cities is the gulf that exists between the inner city and the outer suburbs or hinterland.

Published March 1992
Arthouse and Beyond
Review
Gregory Kwok-Keung Leong

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

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Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
Feature
Ian Wedde

Looks at recent issues for the National Art Gallery of New Zealand from the boardroom dismissals and judgments as well as the operations.

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Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
Feature
Viv Szekeres

Museum exhibitions tend not to challenge visitors with critical perspectives, contradictory points of view or subject matter which is controversial. I would like to explore different ways that conflict might be included in exhibitions and used to further our understanding of the past.

Published March 1992
Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
Review
Sean Kelly

Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
12 February - 22 March 1992 and touring

Published March 1992
Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
Feature
Andrew Montana

The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.

Published March 1992
The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
Feature
Shar Jones

According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?

Published March 1992
Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Feature
Roger Trudgeon

Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.

Published March 1992