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Local Conditions: New Zealand Art

Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.

Robert Leonard

Museums on the Edge

Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand

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

Ian Wedde

Museums on the Edge

A Continuum of Maori Art

Whatu Aho Rua - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Festival. The exhibition Whatu Aho Rua 'weaving with two strands' organised by the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a departure form exhibitions usually seen in New Zealand Galleries.

Mina McKenzie

Museums on the Edge

Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design

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

Andrew Montana

Museums on the Edge

Exhibiting the Museum

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.

Paul Carter

Museums on the Edge

Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees

Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.

Patrick Filmer-Sankey

Museums on the Edge

A New Museum for Victoria

In the first project of its kind, private investors will provide half the money needed to build the Museum of Victoria at a new site on the Yarra River.

Geoffrey Maslen

Museums on the Edge

Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation

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.

Roger Trudgeon

Museums on the Edge

If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!

I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

Nelson English

Museums on the Edge

Museums and Technology: A Recession Boom?

With so many people feeling bruised and battered by the 1980s, it may seem cynical to point out that this unlamented decade also produced some new museums. These two 1980s legacies appear unrelated. On the face of it, museums are a quintessentially boom-time phenomenon, another emblem of 1980s extravagance.

Charles Pickett

Museums on the Edge

Heritage Collections not Museums

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.

Daniel Thomas

Museums on the Edge

Bad Names Improved

Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.

Daniel Thomas

Museums on the Edge

Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions

Conservation - access, equity and future directions. Everyone is talking about the effects of the economic climate, some people are calling it a recession and others a depression.

Ian Cook

Museums on the Edge

A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt

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.

Christopher Saines

Museums on the Edge

CAMA Conference: An Overview

Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.

Susan Tonkin

Museums on the Edge

Independent Curators

Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators by Alison Carroll Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991

Elizabeth Cross

Museums on the Edge

Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory

Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 1991.

Naomi Cass

Museums on the Edge

Museums Listings

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

Louise Dauth

Museums on the Edge

Here We Go Again

Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

Donald Brook

Museums on the Edge

A Dialogue with Richard Grayson

Exhibition review An Interrupted Dialogue. One of the first international experimental art exhibitions to be shown outside Hungary since the end of World War 2. Grayson worked with Suzy Meszoly of the Soros Fine Art Documentation Centre of Budapest in 1988 during the time when changes were sweeping through Central Europe.

Fotis Kapetopoulos

Museums on the Edge

Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing

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

Sean Kelly

Museums on the Edge

Testing the Meaning of Heritage

Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia November - December 1991 Curated by Angela Tidmarsh and JVS Megaw on behalf of the Flinders University of South Australia Catalogue edited by Ruth Megaw.

Janet Maughan

Museums on the Edge

Ordinary Otherness

Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992 Art Gallery of South Australia 28 February - 19 April 1992

Stephanie Radok

Museums on the Edge

Arthouse and Beyond

Looks at Arthouse in Launceston Tasmania.

Gregory Kwok-Keung Leong

Museums on the Edge

Aboriginal Art, the Nation State Suburbia

In Englishwe use the word 'country' in two main senses: to refer to nation states, and to speak about rural lands beyond the big cities and their suburbs. In Australia there is historically a third zone out past the country; the now quickly shrinking Outback.

Peter Sutton

Art and the Economy

What is Australian Work?

I am often asked where I originally come from. And, if I am in a wicked mood, I will try to embarass the questioner with some non-answer. A persistent enquirer will ignore the flippancy and further qualify their question by rephrasing the terminology to ask whether I was born in Australia (which incidentally, was the form the question was usually couched in up to the 1980s when issues of multiculturalism introduced a so-called obscure politeness.

Susan Cohn

Art and the Economy

Proposals from Invisible Worlds

This paper is almost all stories. Each one is part of much larger ones about cultures changing and moving to occupy the same geographies. We can speak of the conflicts and possibilities that seem to ignite by spontaneous combustion in these sites. But there is a series of sites from which I wish to speak: spaces of crisis that seem to lie within my person. B/w photographs of ritual and shrine.

Marian Pastor Roces

Art and the Economy

The Recession and the Arts

The theme in this article is that the recession will have significant implications for the arts community. The argument is that the recession is not just a temporary phenomenon, related to a decline in demand, but is the product of weaknesses in the Australian economy and of the peculiar nature of economic growth in the 1980s....

Greg McCarthy

Art and the Economy

Art, Sports Stars and the Depression: Knocking at the Door of the Special World

Our sports stars are successful because they are not burdened by funding programs which dribble a meagre supply to an army of unknown novices....the arts need radical strategies to help them survive the recession and achieve greater audience participation. (this article is responded to by Norm Austin, the Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of NSW).

Nelson English

Art and the Economy

A response to the Article by Nelson English

A response to the article by Nelson English in this issue of Artlink Volume 12 no 3.

Norm Austin

Art and the Economy

Arts and the Economy?

Just recently I was giving a lecture to a large group of arts people when a person in the audience had a go at me for talking about the economy of the arts and not about art. I, too, am very conscious of the intellectual dilemma in this regard.

Max Bourke

Art and the Economy

The Silence of the Lambs: Before Leaving for a Trip Abroad

Looks at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Circular Quay in Sydney and the issue of economics.

Anita Aarons

Art and the Economy

The Artist, the Gallery and the Recession

In thinking about the repercussions of the recession for artists and galleries, I am worried that our dismay at the present hardship and heartbreak may blind us to the fundamental recession related changes to the artist-gallery system which tend to the detriment of artists and forever endanger the quality and excitement of the Australian art scene.

Geoffrey Legge

Art and the Economy

The Arts- Survival of the BIGGEST?

The arts community of Australia has weathered the recession extremely well. While shopkeepers are shutting their doors, factories are shedding their workers, and the average Australian contemplates life in the same house for the next five years, the average artist continues on pretty much as always.

Brian Tucker

Art and the Economy

Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives

The notion of the arts as an industry dates in Australia from about 10 years ago with the beginnings of statistical data measuring the economic impact of artistic activity. ... (Response to this article by Anna Ward, Director of the National Association of Visual Arts also in this issue of Artlink.)

Peter Anderson

Art and the Economy

A Response to 'Incidental Benefits'

Response to the article by Peter Anderson in this issue of Artlink examining arts industry rhetoric and policy objectives.

Anna Ward

Art and the Economy

The Australia Shop -- EXPO 92 Seville

The Australian Government's decision to participate in Expo 92 in Seville, the biggest Expo this century, has culminated in a presence recently described in a 'Best of Expo Guide' as "high spirited in mood and one of the most distinctive pavilions at Expo."

Marjorie Johnson

Art and the Economy

The Ham Museum ARCO 1992

Critically examines the 11th manifestation of the international art fair ARCO in Madrid. Photographs of the art fair included in the article.

Ian North

Art and the Economy

Predicaments of Furniture Design

No matter what we say about furniture, it seems to have been said before. Small wonder that painting and installation attracts our writers more than furniture, when discourse about tables and chairs is confined to the rehearsal of so many grim platitudes. But if banality beleaguers the objects themselves, it is still more oppressively unavoidable in discussion of the unfortunate Australian industries of furniture design and manufacture.

Robert Nelson

Art and the Economy

The Business of Art

It's not easy to make a conference look sexy - especially when it's about regional galleries. But the team at the five year old Regional Galleries Association of Queensland managed just that in the late winter sunshine of Cairns last year.

Margriet Bonnin

Art and the Economy

Culture as Transformation: ARX

Artist's regional exchange (ARX). Events such as ARX in Perth are rare and potentially of such value for me that, although not a participating artist this time, I was determined to travel from the east to attend. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Ian Howard, Anne Kirker and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

Vivienne Binns

Art and the Economy

Towards a Legitimate Interest

The most important questions that arose from ARX3 related to the issue of legitimacy of interest. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Vivienne Binns, Anne Kirker and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

Ian Howard

Art and the Economy

Dialogue with Thailand

Interview format with Dr Poshyananda One of Four views on the exchange. See also the articles by Vivienne Binns, Ian Howard and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

Anne Kirker

Art and the Economy

Managing ARX

Written by the co-ordinator of the past three ARX events which have taken place in Perth Western Australia. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Vivienne Binns, Anne Kirker and Ian Howard in this issue of Artlink.

Adrian Jones

Art and the Economy

There's Magic in your Hands

Looks at the artist in residence program for Thancoupie at the Hamley Bridge Primary School South Australia in May 1992.

Karen Brown

Art and the Economy

Vicious Circles: Women's Exclusion from Contemporary Visual Art

Written with Cassandra Cavanaugh with graphs illustrating participation of women in the various sectors of the visual arts.

Dorothy Broom

Art and the Economy

The Brush-Off Syndrome: Stage Design, History and Visual Art in Adelaide

Clear discussion of the issues facing stage and set designers in the visual arts world.

Pamela Zeplin

Art and the Economy

Incomplete Identities: A Critical Study of the Work of Mike Parr

Book review Identities: A Critical Study of the Work of Mike Parr David Broomfield University of Western Australia Press 330 pp

Bert Flugelman

Art and the Economy

Demystifying Art Criticism

Book review Art Connections Jenny Aland and Max Darby Heinemann, Melbourne 1991 RRP $29.95

Catherine Speck

Art and the Economy

The Money, the Means and the Info...

Book review The Money and the Means: Grants, Scholarships and Opportunities for Professional Development Art Museums Association of Australia 1992 RRP $8.00

Louise Dauth

Art and the Economy

Between the Clues Lies the Evidence

Exhibition review Suzanne Treister Post West Gallery 22 - 31 May 1992

Catherine Lumby

Art and the Economy

Metaphors of Mortality: Catherine Truman

Exhibition review Life Boat: Carvings by Catherine Truman Jam Factory Gallery South Australia 10 July - 9 August 1992

Susan Cochrane

Art and the Economy

The Fourth Side of the Triangle: Bronwyn Oliver

Exhibition review Bronwyn Oliver Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, South Australia 29 May - 18 July 1992