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Your two-cents worth
We want you and your two-cents worth. With the big Museums Australia conference coming up next year, we’re already...
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This week’s news round-up
Several interesting items came to our attention this week. Here’s a run-down. ARTS AND CULTURAL MINISTERS MEETING, ALICE SPRINGS This...
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For whom the Bell tolls …
If you like your art confronting, challenging and satirical, then Richard Bell’s show at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre is definitely...
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The Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow
Biennale of Sydney are looking for an emerging curator to be awarded the Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellowship and be mentored by...
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Creepy Quarantine
With Halloween fast approaching, M&G decided to take a look at one of Sydney’s creepiest heritage experiences, the Quarantine Station...
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Bowraville: The Tardis and beyond
Bowraville is home to two very different museums, both located on High Street; Bowraville Folk Museum and the Frank Partridge...
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Marching to a different drum: Stars + Stripes
Last Friday, I was fortunate to be invited by Bathurst Regional Gallery to open their most recent exhibition, Stars +...
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Strange specimens and creepy critters: The art of taxidermy
When I was a kid I dreamed of starting a museum in my bedroom. I set about gathering specimens for...
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After the flood
On 18 September 2014, Coffs Harbour Regional Museum reopened its doors after a flood forced its closure some five years...
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I’ll have art with that, thank you
It doesn’t get much better than this: sumptuous surrounds, delectable degustation and the high stakes of an art auction. It...
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We are one
One year ago on this very day, the M&G NSW website was born at the MCA Australia with the Hon...
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Arts sense and art cents
In surveying the international media over the last week or so, two articles asserted themselves into our sphere of thinking....
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Free to a good home
This is a chance in a lifetime! The Museum of Contemporary Art has a set of artwork storage sliding racks...
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Cultural toolkit workshop report
Last week 25 delegates from as far away as Deniliquin and Condobolan, travelled to Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre at...
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After the Nimbin Museum fire: How to model cultural recovery?
Andrew Simpson, President of MA-New South Wales has kindly given permission to publish his recent article about the devasting fire in...
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Your Most Obedient Servant
A two-year collaboration between the Australian Museum and Museums & Galleries of NSW (M&G NSW) has come to fruition with...
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At Home: Frances and the island
This week’s At Home artist is rising star, Frances Belle Parker, a Yaegl woman who lives and works in Maclean. M&G...
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Remember the milk bar?
There’s a great exhibition touring nationally which explores the origins of the humble milk bar and it offers much more...
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Big things at Bathurst!
In our minds, Bathurst is famed for two things: V8 Supercars and the gold that sparked Australia’s first gold rush....
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In defence of little museums
Mostly there’s no blockbuster exhibitions, gift shops or touch screens, and no dinosaur skeletons or Egyptian mummies either. Yes, small...
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