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'I think Archie would be pleased': 100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watching it evolve


In 2008, when I first visited Canberra’s newly opened National Portrait Gallery, my first response was an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I knew many of those paintings. They had once hung on the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the annual Archibald Prize exhibition, or been seen in the Salon des Refusés home to the best of the rejects.
Over 49 years I have seen the Archibald from both the inside, as a curator, and the outside as a critic. My first Archibald was in 1972, the year Clifton Pugh won with his portrait of Gough Whitlam. Along with other art history students, I had never been especially interested in this festival of popular culture, but as the recently appointed most junior of all curators my job was to administer the prize. ....

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Old listed companies follow super new path


Switzer Daily
The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of
Equity Trustees (EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former
prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have served on the board of
the stately 133 year old institution.
The roll call of dignitaries includes 19
th century
premier Sir Charles Sladen, prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies
and former governor general Ninian Stephen.
In Marc,h former Abbott/Turnbull era Cabinet minister Kelly
O’Dwyer joined the board, filling a seat vacated by former Victorian premier
and Hawthorn Football Club president Jeff Kennett. (Kennett’s great
grandfather, Edward Fanning was a director for 30 years from 1888 to 1917). ....

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