Final notes from google alert for Royal Academy & Australia show History Extra BBC History note of dates for exhibition
And google alert search also sent me this one:
mention of Ihtsahymn by Ihtiram, a son of Royal Academy, best known in Western Australia as the sire of Miss Andretti - horse racing and breeding
Interview with Christian Thompson included in this video about the RA show
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Kimberley still at risk to Govt plans for industrialising area
Link to video interviews with Phil Roe and Terry Hunter, plus footage of the Lurujarri Heritage trail Goolarabooloo on The Age website here.
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Tolokonnikova & Žižek
Link to letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) and
Slavoj Žižek (Cultural theorist & philosopher)
A Pussy Riot protest in Red Square in Moscow in January 2012. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
Slavoj Žižek (Cultural theorist & philosopher)
A Pussy Riot protest in Red Square in Moscow in January 2012. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Bedford on a plane
News of the launch of Qantas plane
Qantas and Boeing have unveiled the most complex paint job ever undertaken on a plane to celebrate one of Australia's most famous indigenous artists. It took 10 days and - for the first time - Boeing used paintbrushes to recreate the textures of the late WA artist Paddy Bedford. Done in partnership with Australian designers Balarinji.
Qantas and Boeing have unveiled the most complex paint job ever undertaken on a plane to celebrate one of Australia's most famous indigenous artists. It took 10 days and - for the first time - Boeing used paintbrushes to recreate the textures of the late WA artist Paddy Bedford. Done in partnership with Australian designers Balarinji.
Friday, 8 November 2013
More 40th anniversaries of note
Johanna Mendelson on 40th anniversaries additional to that of the Sydney Opera House of note in Australia for The Conversation
Establishment of Aboriginal Arts Board
The first Sydney Biennale
Establishment of Aboriginal Arts Board
The members of the first board included Dick Roughsey (chairman), Raphael Apuatimi, Albert Barunga, Harold Blair, Ken Colbung, Kitty Dick, Charles (Chicka) Dixon, Ruby Hammond, Eric Koo'oila, Albert Lennon, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Wandjuk Marika, Mick Miller, Violet (Vi) Stanton and Terry Widders. Dick Roughsey OBE (about 1920–85) is recognised as an important Lardil artist and storyteller. The board's second chairman, Wandjuk Marika OBE (1927–87), is recognised as an important Rirratjingu artist and was a respected leader of Yirrkala
The first Sydney Biennale
2013 Victoria Indigenous Art Awards: Deadly Award winner Ray Thomas
Ray Thomas has won the overall Deadly Award in the Victoria Indigenous Art Awards 2013 for a portrait of his
94-year-old mother, a Gunnai elder.
Radio National interview here
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| Ray Thomas' portrait of his mother, Gunnai Elder - Mum Alice. |
Radio National interview here
Catholic Herald review
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton reviews the Australia exhibition for the Catholic Herald
Art review: Australia, Royal Academy
Despite some evocative landscapes, the latest RA blockbuster struggles to squeeze two centuries of art from an entire continent into an exhibition of 200 works
Art review: Australia, Royal Academy
Despite some evocative landscapes, the latest RA blockbuster struggles to squeeze two centuries of art from an entire continent into an exhibition of 200 works
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Yirrkala Drawings, 1947, in Sydney
In 1947, senior ceremonial leaders at Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land
produced hundreds of vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the
anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, which are now held at the
Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia.
On display in Sydney at AGNSW from 12 Dec to 23 Feb 2014
On display in Sydney at AGNSW from 12 Dec to 23 Feb 2014
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Left to right: Mowarra Ganambarr Dätiwuy Thunderman and shark site at Arnhem Bay 1947, lumber crayon and chalk on butchers paper; Nänyin’ Maymuru Djarrakpi 1947, lumber crayon on butchers paper; Mundukul Marawili Fish trap at Baraltja 1947, lumber crayon on butchers paper. Ronald M Berndt Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of WA, Perth
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More Nations in painting
America painting a nation at AGNSW starts 8 Nov
Henry Inman, No-Tin (Wind) Chippewa Chief 1832-33 (detail)
Henry Inman, No-Tin (Wind) Chippewa Chief 1832-33 (detail)
Friday, 1 November 2013
Call for submisions
SUBMISSIONS DUE: DECEMBER 6, 2013
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society invites
submissions from scholars, artists, and activists for a new issue of
the journal exploring Indigenous art, aesthetics, and decolonizing
struggle, guest edited by Jarrett Martineau (University of Victoria,
Cree/Dene), in conjunction with the Editors of Decolonization.
http://critical-theory.com/submit-papers-indigenous-art-aesthetics-decolonial-struggle/
http://critical-theory.com/submit-papers-indigenous-art-aesthetics-decolonial-struggle/
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