the 2017 Wynne Prize finalists
Wynne Prize 2017 finalist James Drinkwater, ‘Passage to Rungli Rungliot’, oil on hardboard, 180x360cm. © the artist Photo: Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW Prudence Gibson, UNSW
Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
2017 Winners Announced
The Tweed Regional Gallery has announced the winners of the 2017 Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture.
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The-Art-Museum on Facebook
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Katsushika Hokusai
from the Great Wave to Starry Night, how a blue pigment changed the world
Detail from Katsushika Hokusai, The great wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki namiura), (1830–34), from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji (Fugaku-sanjū-rokkei) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1909 (426-2) Hugh Davies, La Trobe University
Discovering Charles Meere
Book Review: Joy Eadie, Discovering Charles Meere: Art and Allusion
Sasha Grishin has been busy again
Victorian Watercolours at the AGNSW
Exhibition: Victorian Watercolours
An exhibition that has not received enough publicity – but is a must see.
Making Modernism at the AGNSW
Exhibition: O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith
making modernism – the work of three artists, Margaret Preston, Crace Cossington Smith and Georgia O’Keeffe – until 2 Oct 2017.
Mervyn Bishop at the AGNSW
Wonderful photography – and a well curated exhibition.
art of the Philippines at AGNSW
Passion and procession: art of the Philippines
24 June – 12 November 2017 at the Art Gallery of NSW
Ballarat foto Biennale
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale today announced the 28 finalists in the running for the inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize.
Ballarat foto Biennale
2017 BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE
19 AUGUST – 17 SEPTEMBER
NGV Brave New World
Exhibition: Brave New World 1930s
The new major exhibition at the state gallery (NGV) is themed Brave New World 1930s.
The meeting at ANCA
Walking in on an artist’s install of their exhibition can be an interesting way to learn more about an artist and their work.
Travellers at QAGOMA
Exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery: Travellers
I think this may be an interesting exhibition. Maybe!
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth and the artist’s fragile reputation
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham-Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
Robert Boynes
Exhibition at May Space Gallery (Sydney)
Click here for a link to the gallery and the survey exhibition of Robert Boynes’ artworks.
Dempsey’s People at the Portrait Gallery
Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2017
Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2017
Making Modernism
Newcastle’s Casual Reviewer of Art
Click here for a review by Kerri Smith of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Mid Winter – Canberra Visual Arts
My recommendations for mid winter visual arts in Canberra
Here’s a list of exhibitions I would recommend to locals and anyone thinking of visiting Canberra in mid winter 2017.
Dempsey’s People at the Portrait Gallery
Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (Canberra)
This is a very special exhibition – a real gem.
NGA exhibitions
A 2017 mid winter meander through the NGA
There is a load of reasons why you should visit the NGA right now..
Sidney Nolan, Riverbend
ANU Drill Hall – a visual arts treasure
There’s a treasure now on a much improved permanent exhibition in Canberra – namely:
Robert Boynes
Exhibition: Modern Times at the Drill Hall Gallery
This survey of works by Robert Boynes is one very engaging exhibition.
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Andrea Chung
Andrea Chung and Cyanotypes
First saw the works of this artist as listed for exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
MEG HEWITT: TOKYO IS YOURS
Max Dupain auctions Postscript
A Postscript to my AUCTION AUTOPSY:
The Mossgreen Dupain Sales 2016-17
click here to see Gael Newton’s postscript on her former report on the 2016-2017 significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
Benalla Art Gallery
Exhibition: Patterns of Connection
An exhibition I hope to see – being on till 30th Jul 2017
Penny Byrne
More wonderful art by Penny Byrne
Places for Children
click on image for article
Margaret Dodd
Celebrating the feminist Holden
Margaret Dodd’s Bridal Holden, 1977, ceramic sculpture, 24 x 42 x 20 cm. Clay Glen. Courtesy The Cross Art Projects. Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW
Christian Thompson
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has announced that one of Australia’s leading visual artists, Bidjara man Dr Christian Thompson is set to make his virtual reality debut as winner of the inaugural $80,000 Mordant Family VR Commission. Click here.
Australians, Australia Council and the Visual Arts
How Australian engage with the arts
A good report has been released and it breaks down the stats around public support for the arts – but..
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Tate Liverpool
Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-33 review – August Sander and Otto Dix, masters of life and death
Tate Liverpool: Sander sees the humanity in everyone, Dix nothing but horror, in this superb show exploring Germany between the wars.
National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition: Dempsey’s People – 26 June – 22 Oct 2017
At the Portrait Gallery in Canberra – with accompanying great scholarship – Thurs 29 June until Sun 22 October 2017 – yet another reason to visit Canberra during winter this year.
How botany helped give birth to photography
From The Art Newspaper:
A survey of early photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century, 17 June-17 September) will focus on “the noisy century” of the medium, says the show’s curator, Mattie Boom. Around 300 pictures from the museum’s collection of more than 150,000 photographs will be included.
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Max Dupain
Reinterpreting the Sunbaker
a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
Max Dupain at auction
AUCTION AUTOPSY:
The Mossgreen Dupain Estate Sales 2016-17
click here to see Gael Newton’s report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
contemporary art and public galleries
Why does contemporary art make for wildly popular blockbusters?
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
For Americans who love art by the likes of Hans Holbein, Édouard Manet, Georges Braque and Paul Klee, dark times lie ahead.
Coffee in O’Connor
Keeping warm and enjoying a coffee
Time out on a freezing cold morning in Canberra
Victoria Cooper+Doug Spowart
TAKING AuNZ PHOTOBOOKS TO THE WORLD
The Vienna Photo Book Festival
A post on Doug and Victoria at the Photo Book Festival in Vienna.
GAG Projects, Greenaway Art Gallery
Nasim Nasr – The Home
Rijksmuseum photography
the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography – click here
MONA’s The Museum of Everything
The compulsion to create: ‘outsider art’ at MONA’s The Museum of Everything
Untitled (all), Hans-Jörg Georgi, 2010–15, Courtesy of The Museum of Everything. Moorilla Gallery, Courtesy of Atelier Goldstein and The Museum of Everything (installation by Lutz Pillong), CC BY
NGA Filipino art review – part 2
More on the review on ArtsHub by Gina Fairley
There was an earlier comment by Arts Hub on issues around the National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition of Filipino art.
Jeff Moorfoot OAM
Ballarat photography festival director recognised
from the listing:
Anna Gray AM
Queen’s Birthday honour to former NGA curator
As listed: Dr Anne Mary Gray AM