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I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
For all that Alice Springs is a small city, the complexity of its composition never fails to surprise. Open the pages of the Alice Springs News, and you will find a fair amount of variety, but come away with an … Continue reading
Papunya Tula, Alice Springs
The catalog for Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community (Araluen Arts Centre; Papunya Tula Artists, 2012) is deceptively slim in size, a mere 96 pages that is, however, packed with vivid color and equally vivid memories. … Continue reading
Eleanor Hogan’s “Alice Springs”
In 2010 Newsouth Books began publishing its City Series of monographs about major Australian cities. Apart from Perth and Darwin, the capital cities have been covered to date. Each volume combines personal memoir with a bit of history, anecdote and … Continue reading
There Is No Town Like Alice
Let’s backtrack a week or so to Alice Springs, although the memories seem tame now by comparison to the rush of Darwin’s events. We arrived on the midday flight from Sydney, which gave us just enough time to drop our bags … Continue reading
Good Light in Alice
We seem to be in a season of memoirs. Some might say it is a season in hell, but all of these memoirs, despite the sorrows they chronicle, offer hope. Whether it is Howard Goldenberg’s Raft (Hybrid Publishers, 2009) with its … Continue reading
Art Market Intrigue: a novel
Well, if the vagaries of the art market and last week’s post haven’t sated your appetite for the intrigues of buying, selling, trading–and stealing–then you might want to check out the new novel by Martin Roth, Hot Rock Dreaming (Ark … Continue reading
Alice Forever Changes
They say that if you see the Todd River flow three times you’ll never leave Alice Springs again.I’ve seen water in the Todd twice, and I haven’t given up hoping. I first arrived in Alice Springs nearly twenty years ago … Continue reading
Santayana’s Curse
After seeing the Colliding Worlds exhibition at the Australian Museum earlier this year I’ve been doing some occasional reading on early contact in the Western Desert. I recently picked up Robert Tonkinson’s Aboriginal Victors of the Desert Crusade (Cummings Publishing, 1974), which recounts observations … Continue reading
Notes on the Senate Inquiry: Alice Springs
The fourth day of testimony before the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s Indigenous Arts and Crafts Industry took place in Alice Springs on February 21, 2007 in Alice Springs. If one thinks of the emergence of Aboriginal painting into the fine arts market … Continue reading
October Books: Aboriginal Biography
I’ve been traveling so much in the last month that I feel like I’m way behind in my writing…and to an extent in reading too. But in early in October I was inspired by Nicolas Rothwell’s review in The Australian of Liam Campbell’s new … Continue reading
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Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American eye 