News
AM, NHM & Univ of Adelaide – New evidence
in search for the mysterious Denisovans
TRA releases National & State Tourism
Satellite Accounts 2019-20
AMaGA National Conf Canberra 7-10 June 2021
Invited speakers & registration announced
ANMM’s Welcome Wall becomes
Australia’s National Monument to Migration
National Treasures & AWMM listening
to why people see things as valuable
AMaGA’s MAPDA & MAGNA Awards 2021
– open now, entries closing 14 & 30 April
$69M for digital art? NFT concerns
– non-fungible tokens, art & environment
CultureGrrl on AAMD’s deaccession dilemma
(& the Met’s equivocations)
UK seeks tougher planning rules for statues
MA condemns as ‘impractical & unethical’
Tristam Hunt on museums’ Covid learnings
civic mission & wonder of material culture
AAM TrendsWatch report 2021
Navigating a Disrupted Future
ACMI from shadows to screens
– FT reviews development
AWM launch step in public consultation
for Development Project
Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland
AWMM explores stories of city’s migrants
Architecture AU reviews ARM’s NMA at 20
“garrulous, colourful and melodramatic”
AM asking questions – Why?
pivot in brand marketing since reopening
MAAS opens Iranzamin exhibition
– showcasing rarely-seen Persian arts
Grigoryans respond to 18 NMA objects
This is Us: A Musical Reflection of Australia
QVMAG’s Brett Whiteley Waves V rediscovery
– lost work found during collections audit
V&A to say goodbye to depts by material
– woodwork, metalwork etc & 20% of curators
Reimagining BM – curators sought to lead
consultation & briefs for new galleries
Pompeii’s new director
‘Excavation is always a kind of destruction’
CM seeks Cantabrians input on CM’s future
– submissions due by 6 Apr 2021
MCA’s Liz Anne McGregor calls time
‘An enormous legacy’ after 22 years
AWM digitises wartime letters Lt Reginald Saunders
– highest ranked Indigenous soldier
AWM need to tell contemporary stories
bipartisan support from Parliament’s PWC
AM appoints Laura McBride First Nations Dir
redefining relationship with First Nations
NMA celebrates 20 years & the future
– past controversies left behind
Icom restarts museum defn consultation
– ideological rift persists
Pandemic polemics: Met’s off-key NPR msg
v Cleveland’s harmonious storage show