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Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street is now on at HOTA on the Gold Coast.
A new exhibition in Sydney is just the latest in a long, near continuous, list of Egyptian exhibitions in Australia. How much Egypt can we take?
The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
It might seem odd but it’s not the first museum in a video game or metaverse.
What should our museums collect from the sea of information and imagery to represent how Australians feel about the referendum?
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
The colonial era profoundly shaped natural history museums and collections. Herbaria, which are scientists’ main source of plant specimens from around the world, are no exception.
Digital scanning offers a new window on Australia’s unique fossil history, from early multicellular lifeforms to gigantic ‘marsupial lions’.
Record numbers of visitors are flocking to blockbuster exhibitions. Behind all the excitement, there are difficult questions over how to address their carbon footprint.
From Aristotle to Darwin, inaccurate and biased narratives in science not only reproduce these biases in future generations but also perpetuate the discrimination they are used to justify.
Museums have pushed the narrative of Vincent van Gogh as a ‘tortured genius’ for decades, but in its 50th year the Van Gogh Museum is questioning this approach.
Chipperfield is not interested in creating something iconic or instantly recognisable as his. Instead, he sees architecture as a service, a vehicle for civic and public good.
Majumbu’s work sits in the Melbourne Museum, but until now he has not been named as the artist.
Closing racist exhibitions is a good step, but it doesn’t go far enough to decolonise our museums – an expert explains.
Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
As the Grand Egyptian Museum begins welcoming visitors ahead of its opening in 2023, one object remains conspicuously absent.
Top contributors
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Public Humanities, Australian National University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Fellow, Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, Griffith University
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Curator of Art & Social History, Iziko Museums of South Africa
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Museum and Curatorial Studies, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
