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Being forgotten and being remembered

Author
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-art-show/scott-burton-moma-janet-dawson-agnsw/105561568

Scott Burton made art that touched the body before the mind. But like so many artists and men of his generation, he died of AIDS in 1989.

Before he passed, he willed everything to the Museum of Modern Art — his work, his archive, his name — what followed was a slow erasure.

Now, journalist Julia Halperin explores how Burton's legacy, once forgotten, is being reclaimed.

And Janet Dawson, at 90, is presenting her first major retrospective at AGNSW. Curator Denise Mimmocchi asks us to look again at Dawson's luminous, layered world

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