ICYMI: the week’s arts news

Tarnanthi kicks off, NGA turns 40, sculpture walk, live music, ACOs return, talks and more arts news.
Aboriginal dancers outside gallery. Tarnanthi

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TALK: The final talk of the 2021 Perspectives program will be led by Melbourne-based Aboriginal curator Hannah Presley with her lecture titled, CURATOR/CONFIDANT on Saturday 16 October, 10am – 11.15am. Online event. Presley is a Director of Agency and was most recently curator of Indigenous art, National Gallery of Victoria. She was the inaugural Yalingwa curator at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. To Register.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina