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Add-on. Gallery space with blue walls and carpet and colourful abstract artworks. Desmond Lazaro.
Features

Role of the add-on exhibition

Within today’s museum environment some exhibitions are not entirely ‘PC’ (politically correct). We look at the role of the ‘add-on’…

NVAEC, Two women in black stand side by side in front of Indigenous wall hanging art. Kelli Cole, Warumungu and Luritja peoples, Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, co-Curator, in Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023. Photo: Sam Cooper.
Education & Student News

Repositioning: teaching and learning in the visual arts

The fifth National Visual Art Education Conference (NVAEC) saw teachers, artists and curators gathering to share ideas, inspire each other…

robotic sculpture of a box with hands. Jordan Wolfson.
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Experiencing Jordan Wolfson's $6.6 million robotic sculpture

ArtsHub takes a look at the new robotic sculpture by the often controversial, always thought-provoking Jordan Wolfson.

Emily Kam Kngwarry. Image is a gallery with batiks and large paintings hanging from the ceiling and on the walls.
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Repositioning Emily Kam Kngwarray, and why now

A rethinking of the work of Emily Kam Kngwarray reminds us that Country and Community come first.

Gauguin. Painting of two Tahitian women.
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Do we want Gauguin back?

The NGA's recently announced 'Gauguin World' exhibition raises questions, but also proposes new answers.

Deep inside my heart. Image is a bronze figure bending right over from the waist and holding their feet. There are beads all around their feet. Elsewhere in the gallery space are plinths with sculptures on them and art works on the walls.
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Exhibition review: Deep inside my heart, NGA

The NGA's collection show has oomph and demonstrates the importance of collecting lineages.

Opinions & Analysis

Talking about languages and why sovereign peoples don’t want to be called Indigenous

A recent panel discussed the importance of language and self-determination for First Nations people.

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The First Nations exhibition drawing record audiences in Auckland, and why

Designed as an international touring exhibition, ‘Ever Present’ is an exercise in self-determined exhibition making. So, what artworks speak loudest?

Cambodian monks blessing sculptures in gallery setting
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Cambodian sculpture return is a win-win

Three Cambodian sculptures have been formally returned, and then loaned back to the National Gallery of Australia.

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Review delivered on interference in Aboriginal paintings

The National Gallery of Australia has tabled its independent Review into Art Centre interference in the painting of Indigenous artworks.

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