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'In September 2019, the Menil Collection, a museum located in Houston, hosted the largest exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art to visit the state of Texas. For nearly five months, visitors could contemplate—free of charge pursuant to the Menil's mission—roughly one hundred artworks on loan from the Switzerland-based Fondation Opale. The Menil's own Paul R. Davis curated the exhibition, titled "Mapa Wiya (Your Map's Not Needed)." Mapa Wiya translates as "no map" in the Pitjantjatjara language of the Central Australian desert region. That phrase is inscribed on the show's title work, a drawing by the artist Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams (1952–2019), who sadly did not live to see this, the first showing of his work in a US art museum. Mapa Wiya offered visitors a wide range of contemporary Aboriginal art and hence a rich window into the Aboriginal experience.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes Articulating Southeast Asia and the Antipodes vol. 33 no. 2 2019 21208476 2019 periodical issue 'This issue goes to press ten months into the year of living with COVID-19, which is nearly a full year after the date on the volume’s cover. Part of me wanted to be coy about this delay, simply elide the disjunction between the published date and the actual publication. But to tell the truth, it seems more important to acknowledge where we are and how we are. Antipodes has been running behind schedule for the past few issues, and the patience of our contributors and subscribers has been much appreciated. The delays have yielded some fortuitous timing, such as the publication of Soren Tae Smith’s thoughtful piece on the mosque bombing in Christchurch in the June 2019 issue, apparently just a few months later than the event (although actually a year delayed). “This Is a Difficult Piece to Write” was both a timely and an atemporal reflection on the literal and figurative tragedy of a world that seems increasingly divided at the same time that it finds unity in disasters, naturally and humanly induced. So perhaps it is fitting that Antipodes lags behind time, for now, offering an opportunity to reflect on the present in the past' (Brenda Machosky, Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 430-432
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