Dawn Fraserâs shocking tell-all reveals rape, abuse and love Olympic hero Dawn Fraser is a survivor who has triumphed over immense trauma and personal tragedy. Her story reveals she has no intention of slowing down.
News by Leisa Scott
Premium Content
Subscriber only Dawn Fraser is sharing the turmeric recipe she credits with halting the arthritis in her fingers. It s an elaborate process, involving smashing, cooking and drying her homegrown turmeric before it s mixed with pepper and a few other spices. Every morning, she sprinkles the concoction on top of her Weetbix, banana and honey. She spreads her 83-year-old fingers on the table as proof of the wonders of the spice. I couldn t bend that one before, Fraser says, twiddling her middle finger back and forth.
Australia
Noosa
Queensland
Tokyo
Japan
Noosa-river
United-kingdom
Brisbane
Melbourne
Victoria
Sussex
East-sussex
Countering the Fetishization of Indigenous Art
How contemporary Native artists are evading recognition and visibility for a more speculative indigenous futurism
In 1991, James Luna invited audiences at the Whitney Museum of American Art to stand on a small riser with him – or alongside one of three life-size, cardboard cut-outs of him shirtless in a beaded necklace or ornate headdress – to ‘take a picture with a real Indian’. It was a precipitous moment for both the institution and the wider art world: two years later, the museum would host the decisive ‘identity politics’ Whitney Biennial (curated by Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips and Elizabeth Sussman) that conventional wisdom suggests began a slow tectonic shift toward greater inclusiveness and ‘globalization’. In 1992, to mark the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña toured a performance as ‘Amerindians from
Mexico
New-york
United-states
Salina-art-center
Kansas
Nepantla
Meco
Paris
France-general
France
Cheyenne
Washington