Vodcast: Unreconciled: Museums, Galleries and Aboriginal Art History
The South Australian Museum holds among the most extensive and important collections of Aboriginal creativity and material culture in the world.
But what values, and whose values, does a museum promote in the way it cares for and displays art and material culture? How does the role of a museum differ from that of an art gallery?
Anthropologist Professor John Carty discusses the role of cultural institutions to promote Aboriginal art history in his Research Tuesdays Lecture.
https://youtu.be/trzL7ttgi8A?list=PLrj2iJKdUdbwQleoFrMCh-Hw1tXUQboHi
But what values, and whose values, does a museum promote in the way it cares for and displays art and material culture? How does the role of a museum differ from that of an art gallery?
Anthropologist Professor John Carty discusses the role of cultural institutions to promote Aboriginal art history in his Research Tuesdays Lecture.
https://youtu.be/trzL7ttgi8A?list=PLrj2iJKdUdbwQleoFrMCh-Hw1tXUQboHi
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