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Emily Kame Kngwarreye in Japan
Gay McDonald and Laura Fisher on staging Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye at the National Museum of Art in Osaka
Fragrant Lands: There’s all our country
An exhibition and artist exchange program between Desart and the Shanghai International Culture Association
Grassroots cultural exchange between western New South Wales and the Philippines
Two case studies involving Indigenous artists from the Philippines and the politics of transnational cultural exchange
Unmapping the End of the World
Unmapping the End of the World is an intercultural, durational and experimental contemporary art project
We are born of the Fanua: Moananui arts practice in Australia
Artist and curator Léuli Eshraghi maps the diaspora and reconsolidation of Pacific or Moananui peoples in Australia through the art of Taloi Havini, Kirsten Lyttle and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire
Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Artspace.
21 March – 9 June 2014
21 March – 9 June 2014
Old Masters: Australia’s Great Bark Artists
National Museum of Australia, Canberra 6 December - 20 July 2014
safARI 2014
Alaska Projects, Kings Cross Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross Wellington St Projects, Chippendale The Corner Cooperative, Chippendale DNA Projects, Chippendale Museum and St James Stations, CBD 14 March – 4 April 2014
The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston 15 March – 18 May 2014 Galleries UNSW/COFA, Sydney 18 July – 30 August 2014
Stuart Ringholt: Kraft
Monash University Museum of Art Curators: Charlotte Day and Robert Leonard 14 February – 17 April 2014
The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights
Artist and curator Troy-Anthony Baylis reviews Jane Lydon's book The Flash of Recognition: and regards it as a "crucial text for visual communication, media, film, and photography scholars, who will learn to be more analytical of how images, particularly images of Aboriginal people, have been constructed through journalism, activism, and art."
Territory style: Salon des Refusés
Yanuwa/Larrakia/Bardi/Wardaman woman Franchesca Cubillo, Senior Curator/Advisor National Gallery of Australia, writes about the first Salon des Refusés (conceived and brought to fruition by gallerists Matt Ward and Paul Johnstone) held in Darwin in 2013 as a pendant to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Good Medicine
Being Aboriginal doesn’t make you wise, spiritual or even good at art. Being Aboriginal is historical just like being any other nationality or ethnicity. All art can be examined ethnographically, all people can be examined ethnographically.
The dearth of criticism
Some artists are often heard to complain about the lack of honest criticism of Aboriginal art. But in such a limited sphere, criticising an Aboriginal artist in formal or aesthetic terms, or at a deeper level, is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Too often, critics play the man and not the ball. Can we handle the truth?
The (white) elephant in the room: Criticising Aboriginal art
Does Aboriginal art exist in a critical vacuum?
Let's be polite
Editor Daniel Browning interviews artist Vernon Ah Kee who discusses the lack of criticism of Aboriginal art and the abundance of 'mass production' Aboriginal art emanating from remote communities seen by some as 'real Aboriginal art' but in the eyes of Ah Kee simply and uncritically playing into false romantic notions of the lives of Aboriginal people.
Toward Indigenous Criticism: The Ah Kee paradox
Métis artist, curator and academic David Garneau explores the current situation of indigenous art through increasing global links and connections.
Ich Bin Ein Aratjara: 20 years later
Aboriginal super-curator Djon Mundine, who travelled to Europe in 1994 as touring curator with the significant exhibition Aratjara: art of the first Australians, looks back at the genesis and reception of that exhibition. He asks where is the political impetus evident in Aratjara today and where is the Aboriginal input into the development of national survey exhibitions.
The limits of criticism
Anthropologist John Carty casts his eyes over the last ten years of writing on Desert art, mostly in newspapers, and finds many cliches and inconsistencies. He asks: "Where are the fine-grained localised art histories, the rich biographies of our most interesting and important individual artists? Where are their voices?" And replies: "They are still waiting in the Desert."