REVIEW: Breaking the Silence | Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia
National museums serve as custodians of collective memory. They preserve, interpret, and present stories that shape a nation’s cultural identity. The National Museum of Australia (NMA) fulfills this role powerfully through Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, on display in the museum’s Focus Gallery. Though modest in scale, this exhibition and accompanying publication reveals a […]
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LOVE, LOSS & INTIMACY: NGV INTERNATIONAL
DRAWN FROM the National Gallery of Victoria Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, and David Hockney amongst others—with Australian artists such as modernist Joy Hester (AP Issue 3), contemporary Indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee (AP Issue […]
