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‘Incredibly healing’: artist Tony Albert receives more than 2,000 public donations of racist Aboriginalia
Tea towels, ashtrays, crockery and clothing depicting Aboriginal people and designs have been hand-delivered or posted daily during the artist’s MCA exhibition after he made a call-out Warning: this article contains depictions of racist and offensive artefacts and images of Indigenous Australians who have died Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Five months ago Indigenous artist Tony Albert made a public request for donations of Aboriginalia – souvenirs, homewares and other objects depicting Aboriginal people and designs, often as caricatures, that were created and sold by non-Indigenous people. It was a request that accompanied his career-spanning Not a Souvenir exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, which featured 4,400 objects from the artist’s own collection – one he started in the 1980s as a child. Continue reading...
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Tea towels, ashtrays, crockery and clothing depicting Aboriginal people and designs have been hand-delivered or posted daily during the artist’s MCA exhibition after he made a call-out Warning: this article contains depictions of racist and offensive artefacts and images of Indigenous Australians who have died Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Five months ago Indigenous artist Tony Albert made a public request for donations of Aboriginalia – souvenirs, homewares and other objects depicting Aboriginal people and designs, often as caricatures, that were created and sold by non-Indigenous people. It was a request that accompanied his career-spanning Not a Souvenir exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, which featured 4,400 objects from the artist’s own collection – one he started in the 1980s as a child. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘Incredibly healing’: artist Tony Albert receives more than 2,000 public donations of racist Aboriginalia, Tea towels, ashtrays, crockery and clothing depicting Aboriginal people and designs have been hand-delivered or posted daily during the artist’s MCA exhibition after he made a call-out Warning: this article contains depictions of racist and offensive artefacts and images of Indigenous Australians who have died Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Five months ago Indigenous artist Tony Albert made a public request for donations of Aboriginalia – souvenirs, homewares and other objects depicting Aboriginal people and designs, often as caricatures, that were created and sold by non-Indigenous people. It was a request that accompanied his career-spanning Not a Souvenir exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney, which featured 4,400 objects from the artist’s own collection – one he started in the 1980s as a child. Continue reading…
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