Faith Ringgold review

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum NY
Ramsay Kolber Review

In 2017, there is still much work to be done to break down the barriers to a truly equitable society: some palpable, others invisible. But fighting for freedom often comes with having the freedom to do so in the first place, and not everyone is equally free. This is a point that Faith Ringgold and We Wanted a Revolution both make ardently clear: we cannot continue to whitewash the histories of those women who society has systemically failed. Rather we need to acknowledge those failures and see the long road out, towards a better, more empathetic future. Ringgold’s painting still offers us a window to that world; don’t send it back unseen.

Art histories

making art histories visible
How Pacific Time is Writing Long-Overlooked Chicano Artists Back into Art History
Catherine Wagley
Artnet News

Commentary on the novel and anthropocene

McKenzie Wark
On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene
Verso Books Blog

on Amitav Ghosh's lectures 'the great derangement'
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

move from proletarian to individual (interior) novel which is proposed as an obsolete genre for current day where the network of relationships between human, nonhuman and inhuman (technology and labour) should be part of the cultural workers' consideration and are made urgent by climate change and the acknowledgement of this period of the anthropocene...
something along these lines
Refs to other writers and articles with links are included in the blogpost

Presence | economies

obligation to attend
Amalia Ulman
Hito Steyerl

Jennifer Tee

Jennifer Tee Structures of recollection and perseverance at Kunstraum
link

Hidden in plain view | British war on Tasmania

Better information on the colonial wars in Tasmania is waiting to be found, and historian Nick Brodie has done the graft and produced the analysis from documents and records held in the national repositories.
Brodie’s advice: look beyond the regular sources, find the bigger picture and the context that the records are produced in.
Think about what the records were created for, how they were used during and after creation, how they were archived, how complete they appear, and only then worry about relating the stories they might contain. 

Interview with Nick Brodie on his process for new book The Vandemonian War: the Secret History of Tasmania's Colonisation

'After Mabo: Koiki's Vision For a great New Society', Jeff McMullen

https://newmatilda.com/2017/06/04/after-mabo-koikis-vision-for-a-new-great-society/

Australian journalist Jeff McMullen delivered the following speech to 25^th Anniversary Mabo Celebration in Townsville tonight.

The many distinct cultures and hundreds of different languages here have produced a national treasure of ancient knowledge of what it is to be here. Remember that in the natural world diversity is the secret of abundance, the source of strength and resilience. Each ancient language and knowledge system preserves many shades of human creativity and often a precise understanding of how to solve local problems with local knowledge.

New work in Sydney

Beyond the dot: Brigid Delaney on exhibition at SCA Sydney dot dot dot [...]

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dot, dot, dot […] Curated by Janelle Evans Opening: Wednesday 5 July, 6-8pm Exhibition: Thursday 6 July – Saturday 29 July

SCA Wingara Mura Fellow Janelle Evans in collaboration with Dr Geraldine LeRoux (University de Bretagne) is curating an exhibition opening in July 2017 at the SCA Galleries. The exhibition seeks to provide a discourse about the ways in which contemporary Australian artists interpret the dot beyond the protective skin or screen used by Central and Western Desert artists and in ways which are non-derivative.

The artists in this exhibition explore the dot as indexical markers or indicators of time, place, memory, erasure, self-determination, feminist agency and diaspora; as energy points or ways of mapping a person or architecture and as points of dislocation and relocation.

Exhibiting artists: David Asher Brook, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jon Cattapan, Dacchi Dang, John Di Stefano, Janelle Evans, Lindy Lee, Ms Saffaa, Armelle Swan and ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks) with Willl Cooke.

Lala Rukh

Lala Rukh (1948-2017)
From Natasha Ginwala documenta 14

Cook

Links for events and info in 2017 for Captain Cook and Endeavour
The 250th anniversary of Cook’s voyage, which began at Plymouth in August 1768

Nicholas Thomas, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, recently edited the first illustrated edition of Cook’s writings, The Voyages of Captain James Cook (Murdoch Books).

Timeline

Title: Endeavour at sea
Description: Endeavour at sea from Sketches made in Captain Cook’s First Voyage
Pencil
Date: 1768-1771
Author: Sydney Parkinson
Dimensions:
Collection: British Library
Reference no: Add.Ms.9345f.16v
Record no.: 19411

East Coast Encounter; Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum

Mapping

Linguist Hedvig Skirgård links to maps here