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[merelygifted]

Billionaire Demands Portrait's Removal from Australia National Gallery

Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, has reportedly called on Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia to take down a painting of her by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira.

It wasn’t immediately clear what had moved Rinehart, a donor to the National Gallery of Australia, to make the request, but it was clear, at least, that Namatjira’s portrait was viewed as being not the kindest representation of her. Both the Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald used the word “unflattering” to describe the picture, which renders her skin a pinkish color, exaggerates the folds on her chin, and turns her lips downward into a frown.

The painting is one of nearly two dozen portraits that appears in Namatjira’s current retrospective at the museum, which traveled the show from the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

In Australia, Namatjira is well-known and much-loved. He became the first Indigenous artist to win the Archibald Prize, a prestigious Australian award for portraiture, in 2020.

Rinehart earned her fortune in the mining business and is currently chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting. She has periodically made national headlines in Australia for a string of controversies, most notably her decision in 2022 to stop funding a netball team after an Indigenous player asked not to have the Hancock Prospecting logo featured on her uniform.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, in April, Rinehart personally asked NGA director Nick Mitzevich and NGA chair Ryan Stokes to deinstall the Namatjira portrait. The museum declined to do so. “The National Gallery welcomes the public having a dialogue on our collection and displays,” the museum said in a statement to the publication.  ...

Her portrait is in the bottom row, 3rd from the L

[emryses]

i think the track that plays behind the charles/edwin hugs is "Accepting Being Dead" ................................................. feeling exceptionally normal about this, fyi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fangirling-heart]

Story summary: The Owl House has an eccentric human, a free-spirited, cursed witch and a little demon (Plus an owl tube, but that is the house itself, so...). It can probably house a couple of young witches more. Like a powerful witch who rejects everything she was to try and find herself and a powerless witch who loses everything he had and now has no choice but to try the same.

Chapter summary: When the runaways stop running...

[ciircex]

Alastor [ @culling ], while caring naught for frivolous national holidays, he can see merit within the occasional celebration. or, more aptly, isn’t a soul who shies away from presented opportunity. so one singular kiss ( chaste & precise ) is bestowed upon darling cheek, and then another peck is stamped closer towards the corner of ruby lips. “ hell-o, my dazzling dame! enjoying your evening thus far? ” // happy national girlfriend day !! :>

The gesture is not MISSED but instead welcomed fully with the tilt of her cheek. A soft PURR could be heard if one really concentrates, a CONTENT && JOYFUL noise only made on occasion. ( A RARITY, ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE CIRCE DEEMS WORTHY OF BEING VULNERABLE WITH ).

The other peck makes those same ruby lips twitch upwards into an AFFEFTIONATE smile. Alastor's presence was ALWAYS a welcome one, especially when he brought kisses to SPARE.

"Yes, my EVENING has been fine," it wasn't busy, thus, it was a very FINE evening. ( THE KISSES && A VISIT FROM ALASTOR PRACTICALLY PUT A CHERRY ON TOP OF HER DAY. ) "I hope the day has also been TREATING you well?"

The QUESTION could be just left as is, but where was the fun in that? Lips turn, placing a kiss against cool skin, leaving a MARK that would need to be dabbed away. ( OR PERHAPS NOT IF THE OVERLORD WOULD LIKE TO PARADE HIS DARLING BELLE'S AFFECTION! )

[anchoeritic]

i’ve seen horny followers, but your followers are on another level of horny

they’re all my sluts (real)

[nobodysdaydreams]

Surprise! 🥳

[asgardiannarnian]

Mermay 2023 #2 - Upside Down.

Colorful, free-spirited girl that I drew on my class notes.

[epickiya722]

100000 likes!

[thechaoticfanartist]

I've learned new coloring powers with gifs and no longer can be stopped.

[treecakes]

grr. we’re leaving.

[merelygifted]

Company sees drop in after-hours trading after issuing guidance on the holiday quarter that worried investors

[summer-fire]

Doing anything: what will the girlies in the group chat think

[telebeast]

unoriginal joke

[foolfortune]

current mantra

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[nb-marceline]

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