{"id":1062,"date":"2019-07-04T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:52:01","slug":"curatorland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/curatorland\/","title":{"rendered":"Curatorland"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photo-web.com.au\/gael\/docs\/curatorland\/image-8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\">Writing in the Rain, FX Harsono - Still from colour video 2011  Collection National Gallery of Australia<\/pre>\n<p class=\"text-12-arial-left-grey-dark\">Following my leaving the National Gallery in September 2014, I&nbsp;was asked by the editor of the Journal of the Asian Arts Society Australia to write about my last decade at the gallery \u2014 the decade that saw the establishment of a&nbsp;survey collection of Asia-Pacific photography spanning from South Asia to the west coast of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-12-arial-left-grey-dark\">The new collection was largely based around major collections acquired from several major private collections of Asia-Pacific photography including one of some 5000 colonial-era Indonesian photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photo-web.com.au\/gael\/docs\/curatorland\/default.htm\">that story \u2014 click&nbsp;here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>For the list of my other essays (being updated) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photo-web.com.au\/gael\/papers\/default.htm\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the Rain, <span class=\"caps\">FX<\/span> Harsono \u2014 Still from colour video 2011 Collection National Gallery of Australia Following my leaving the National Gallery in September 2014, I&nbsp;was asked by the editor of the Journal of the Asian Arts Society Australia to write about my last decade at the gallery \u2014 the decade that saw the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/curatorland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curatorland<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,1,5,3],"tags":[341,261,342,221,344,345,343],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-collections","category-essays","category-photography-exhibitions","category-photography","tag-asia-pacific-photography","tag-curator","tag-curatorland","tag-nga","tag-nga-photography","tag-southeast-asia-photography","tag-taasa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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