Blog: Artefact
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A response to ‘Aboriginalia and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch’
A response to Dr. Liz Conor’s The Conversation essay ‘Aboriginalia’ and the politics of Aboriginal kitsch’ by Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Wiradjuri elder and collector of Aboriginalia, with curator Sally Brand.
Reading Room Display: The Kerry Reed-Gilbert collection
A new display has opened in the AIATSIS Reading Room featuring Aboriginalia from the Kerry Reed-Gilbert collection.
Photographing large paintings in the Stanner Room
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19 Jun 2018 Colin MacDougallNow that four of the largest paintings in the AIATSIS Collection have been digitised, we have extremely detailed, colour accurate digital reproductions preserved for the future.
Aboriginal Art Market success!
This year we invited four remote Aboriginal community art centres to take part in our largest Aboriginal Art Market yet.
My internship at the National Museum of the American Indian
Earlier this year Jodie Dowd undertook an internship at the National Museum of the American Indian which is a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
