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Potter Museum 2018 Highlights
Phillip Adams and Ryan New

Instinct, quirk, and Hammond organs: Phillip Adams and Ryan New discuss their Potter residency and the foundations of their unlikely kinship

Touring: Play on: The art of sport / 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize

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Collection Highlights

Arthur Streeton

The domes of St Mark’s 1908

Cow, 9th – 7th centuries BCE

Angela Brennan

Oliver 1996

Cup, Roman 1st – 4th century CE

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Past events: Art+Climate=Change 2019

ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 KEYNOTE | Miranda Massie: A Museum for the Path Ahead
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Art+Climate=Change 2019 Keynote – Miranda Massie: A Museum for the Path Ahead
1 May 2019
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 KEYNOTE | Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones: Museums & Activism
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Art+Climate=Change 2019 Keynote – Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones: Museums & Activism
30 Apr 2019
Talk
A museum for the path ahead: New York City’s Climate Museum
1 May 2019
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Geography Artist in Residence
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Coming soon: Public Art at the University of Melbourne App
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The Ian Potter Museum of Art Miegunyah Student Project Award
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Resources

Audio
Finding Home: Personal stories of seeking asylum - Jolyon Hoff and Muzafar Ali
Sean Dockray 'Always Learning' (detail) 2018 mixed media Courtesy of the artist
Video
Sean Dockray 'Always Learning'
Stieg Persson 'Dinner with the Abbotts' 2014 Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
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Steig Persson on Dinner with the Abbotts
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Paula Rego's Little Red Riding Hood with Potter curator Samantha Comte
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State of the Union
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Susan Norrie: Field work 2006-2016
Catalogue
Ramesh Mario Nithiyenran: In the Beginning
Catalogue
Angela Brennan: Forms of life
Catalogue
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