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Be on top of this week’s arts news

What's on, what's in the headlines, and the latest program releases – to put you ahead of the game this week.

8 Jul 2022 9:00

Gina Fairley

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Shelley Lasica, The Design Plot (2018, MPavilion). Survey exhibition at MUMA. Photo: Jacqui Shelton.

We’ve recapped the hottest headlines, announcements and arts news that shaped the zeitgeist this past week.

RETURNED OBJECTS: Aboriginal artefacts will return home to South Australia’s Kaurna people after 150 years in Beechworth’s Burke Museum in north-east Victoria. The 15 objects were borrowed in 1878, and sent to the Paris World Expo, returning to Beechworth rather than the ancestral home of Adelaide. Now they will, with this promised repatriation.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina