Trans-Pacific collecting rises in the global marketplace
The breaking down of national barriers is giving rise to new cross-cultural collecting habits, a hot topic at Art Basel HK. As well as being market…
Too dangerous for the museum
Museums can be safe places for unsafe topics but a leading museum director argues there is a point when ideas become too dangerous for museums to…
Corporate sponsorship: vanity or sanity?
Disruption is the new mantra. We look at how cultural organisations can use it to accelerate brand alignment with sponsors to sustain their futures. For the…
Textile art reinvented
Textile art is back bolder and more conceptually-driven than ever before, challenging definitions of material and practice. Textile art is one of the oldest art forms…
Is my art leaving on a jet plane?
With the rise of art fairs and biennales internationally, Australian artists are competing in global shopping malls that dictate the market for good or ill. As…
UnBound, Yuchengco Museum Manila
BOUNCE: UnBound (Yuchengco Museum, 24 January-20 February 2013) explored how culture can move beyond physical boundaries and the cartographic disposition of nation-based exhibitions and pre-packaged notions…
Trans/portable (Manila)
With its title Trans/portable, this exhibition at the independent MO_space Manila (4 August – 2 September 2012), explored how culture is carried beyond cartographic or physical…