{"id":1696,"date":"2013-12-30T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:41:17","slug":"then-theres-cultural-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"Then There&#8217;s Cultural Cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from a mish-mash national identity &#8211; or no national identity at all &#8211; we can&#8217;t end the year without mentioning that old favourite &#8216;cultural cringe&#8217; as captured neatly by AustraliaCulture blogger, Andrew Frost: The exhibition&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;which opened in September, reminded us once more that cultural cringe never dies. The show&#8217;s possible achievements were nothing compared with the voracious need of Australians to read bad reviews and revel in the &#8216;I told you so&#8217; one-upmanship (sic) of Facebook and Twitter commentary. Every country has its fair share of crappy exhibitions but only in Australia do we take them as proof that we suck&#8221;. What show was he writing about? The &#8220;Australia&#8221; exhibition, a 200 work survey of Australian art at The Royal Academy in London no less! [&#8216;Seven things we learned about Australian art in 2013&#8217; by Andrew Frost, The Guardian online, 30 December 2013]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/australia-culture-blog\/2013\/dec\/30\/seven-things-we-learned-about-australian-art-in-2013\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from a mish-mash national identity &#8211; or no national identity at all &#8211; we can&#8217;t end the year without mentioning that old favourite &#8216;cultural cringe&#8217; as captured neatly by AustraliaCulture blogger, Andrew Frost: The exhibition&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;which opened in September, reminded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}