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ESSAY | Part 1: Does the demand for accountability really account for art?

Museums and galleries often attempt to decolonise their collections and embrace diversity, equity and accessibility by ditching the elevated status of the artist. Yet artist narratives still reign supreme as we are encouraged to judge the work through the creator’s biography. Suzanne Cotter, the Museum of Contemporary Art director, is quoted as saying, “if you […]

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The Picasso Century

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Winter Masterpieces series has been running since 2004. When looking at the full list of these exhibitions, it is striking how few feature artists who had not already made their reputations by 1939. Thus far, the only two to do so amongst the total eighteen were Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to […]

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