In this week’s roundup of arts news, we study Presidential portraits; find out how nicely theaters are doing at elevating funds, uncover the powers of ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Fangoria’ magazine comes back to life. By means of portray, portrait photography and a historic timeline graphic, artists Jacky Green (Borroloola and Visiting Indigenous Fellow on the ANU) and Therese Ritchie (Darwin), along with Sean Kerins (CAEPR Fellow at ANU), give voice and political dedication to the Garawa, Gudanji, Marra and Yanyuwa peoples from the Borroloola space of the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region of the Northern Territory, of their lengthy battle towards pernicious improvement tasks that detrimentally affect their lives and contaminate their ancestral countries.
We could forgive the curators if it had been purely a clever ruse to promote the still underneath-publicised genius of Waterhouse, but Clare Gannaway’s commentary suggests that the decision actually was motivated by a moral objection to the supposed content material of the work — as though taking the picture off view would by some means punish the artist for his non-adherence to the ethical requirements of a later century, or shield up to date viewers from the insidious results of his perceived mysogeny.
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