Contributors
David McNeill
David McNeill lectures in contemporary and post colonial art at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. He is a Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the University of New South Wales.
Articles
Grand impressions: Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988
Artlink 8:4
Documenta 11 Takes On Masters of the Universe
Every five years the sleepy little German town of Kassel is invaded by the international art world. The 2002 Documenta exhibition staged here, which have traditionally played second fiddle only to the Venice Biennale, was eagerly anticipated as the first genuinely postcolonial Documenta, due in large part to the appointment of the expatriate Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor as Artistic Director.
New Museums, New Agendas
The Importance of Being 'Un-Australian'
Melbournes Moomba festival held in 1956 replaced the annual celebration of the winning of the eight-hour day. Thus an occasion that had originally been devised to commemorate an important victory of the Australian labour movement was transformed into a bipartisan celebration of civic pride and family values.
Hybrid World