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DIRECTOR’S WORD COMING SOON Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, Hyper Real, Picasso: Vollard suite, Cartier, AusArt Fellowship in New York, Albert Namatjira, Land, art and protest
14 EXHIBITION AND MAJOR NEW COMMISSION FOR THE NGA RODEL TAPAYA Jaklyn Babington profiles Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya whose major commission for the NGA will be on show here from 18 March
18 COMING MAJOR EXHIBITION DEFYING EMPIRE Seven artists reveal their work in the upcoming Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial and Tina Baum profiles Defying Empire artist Yhonnie Scarce
26 EXHIBITION SPONSOR WESFARMERS ARTS Gwen Horsfield interviews Helen Carroll, Manager of Wesfarmers Arts and Curator of the Wesfarmers Collection, and Freja Carmichael shares her experiences as an emerging Indigenous curator
32 CURRENT MAJOR EXHIBITION VERSAILLES Dr Christopher Allen draws a parallel between Europe’s most opulent palace and one of the great periods of western art and Simeran Maxwell shines the light on the animal inhabitants of Versailles
50 DIARY OF AN OBJECT Bianca Hill unpacks Daniel Thomas’s Waterbag, a homage to Marcel Duchamp
54 TOURING EXHIBITIONS ABSTRACTION Lara Nicholls on Australian women’s impact on abstraction in Australia
RESOLUTION Brenda L Croft talks to the NGA about her work and the ongoing relevance of exhibitions that draw together contemporary Indigenous photomedia
64 NEW ACQUISITIONS Pipilotti Rist, Jeffrey Smart, Roy de Maistre
ARTONVIEW 89 AUTUMN 2017
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