Recommendations for 2017 spring Canberra visual arts
Here’s a list of exhibitions my recommendations for anyone thinking of visiting Canberra in spring of 2017.
Polaroid is back
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 16 September 2017
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Another Green World
Another Green World: The Landscape of the 21st Century
Another Green World surveys art of the landscape in the contemporary era by female contemporary artists both emerging and established.
The exhibited works will encompass an historical consciousness of the landscape genre both from Western and Indigenous traditions as well as being an open speculation about the future of the biosphere itself.
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Dianne Firth
when a museum monetizes its collection
when a museum decides to sell, monetizing, their artworks to fund the administration – maybe it is time to close the…
Posted by The Art Museum on Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Dianne Firth Textiles
Textiles as seen at CRAFT ACT November 2013
(originally published on a Word or Two)
It has been a while since I wandered into the exhibition venues of Craft ACT , the local craft council. On the main walls was an exhibition “Art Quilt Australia: people, place and nation“.
National Portrait Gallery UK
one for the 2018 diaryVictorian Giants: The Birth of Art PhotographyNational Portrait Gallery (UK) 1 March – 20 May 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Photographs of Chua Soo Bin
Exhibition: Chua Soo Bin at The Arts House, Singapore
Exhibition: Light with Ink: 18 AUG – 18 SEP 2017 – Click on image
Singapore Art Museum
Posted by Benjamin Milton Hampe on Monday, 21 August 2017
the wonders of speaking curator
Ever wondered about what language some of those art gallery wall texts were written in?
Editta Sherman
Exhibition: The Duchess of Carnegie Hall: Photographs by Editta Sherman
Editta Sherman lived and worked above Carnegie Hall from the late 1940s to 2010, photographing thousands of celebrity portraits―actors, writers, poets, and musicians―in classic black-and-white style.
Contemporary Chinese photography
Working on History: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution
An exhibition presented by the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesischen Kulturellen Austausch e.V. (GeKA) – click here.
Singapore National Library exhibition
Malay artefacts on exhibit at Singapore National Library
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 20 August 2017
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Tilt: Belinda Fox & Neville French
An intriguing and beautiful exhibition is currently on at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Neil Roberts
NEIL ROBERTS chances with glass
17 August to 15 October 2017
Curated by: Barbara Campbell and Jane Cush Continue reading “Neil Roberts”
A Century of Japanese Prints
A Century of Japanese PrintsAugust 11, 2017—January 28, 2018Saint Louis Art Museum
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 14 August 2017
Cezanne Portraits
Jonathan Jones on the influence of CézanneCézanne Portraits at Musée d’Orsay, Paris, til 24 SeptNational Portrait Gallery, London from 26 Oct til 11 Feb 2018.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 11 August 2017
Lee Fook Chee
Lee Fook Chee: Son of Singapore, Photographer of Hong Kong
The Art House, Singapore, 3 AUG – 3 SEP 2017
Picasso in Chicago
a wonderful story about public art
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Walker Evans
Art Blart posts on Walker Evans at the Centre Pompidou Pariscloses 14 August 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Rene Magritte photographs
photos and films by surrealist René Magritte.Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell (Victoria)19 August 2017 – 19 November 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Starstruck
Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
10 Nov 2017 – 12 March 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Matisse in the Studio
Matisse in the StudioRoyal Academy, London until 12 November
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
W Eugene Smith
New Book on W Eugene Smith
W Eugene Smith – notice of new book: Gene Smith’s Sink by Sam Stephenson, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 22 August
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Public art gallery collections
a quote that has a warning for a few art gallery directors in Australia – "Led astray by Campbell’s headlong embrace of…
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
International Centre of Photography
International Centre of PhotographyRed Spotted Purple: Roman Vishniac Science Worktill oct 27, 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Vernacular Photographs
Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African Americans
Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African AmericansJUL 29 – DEC 3, 2017Portland Art Museum
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 5 August 2017
Joan Ross
2017 Ravenswood women’s art prize
Artist Joan Ross wins the Ravenswood women's art prize
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Xanthe Gay
exhibition: Botanica Eclectica at X Gallery
Silver exhibition dedicated to Robert Foster
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
bring back our art galleries
Jonathan Jones on getting rid of tourists rushing through galleries – to bring back slow tourisms – urging people to stop and enjoy the art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
Jonathan Jones review
Jonathan Jones reviews Matisse in the StudioRoyal Academy, London, 5 August to 12 November
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
August Sander
A piece about August SanderPortraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 is on at Tate Liverpool 23 June – 15 October 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
Venice Glass Week
City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry
Inaugural Venice Glass Week, 10-17 September, will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium. click here
Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women
sunbaker
Dr Marcus Bunyan writes on art blart about the ACP exhibition – at the Monash Gallery of Art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Thursday, 3 August 2017
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture
The 2017 Olive Cotton Award exhibition catalogue
Click here to download the pdf of the exhibition of the finalists
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture 2017
The 2017 Director’s Choice Award
The 2017 Director’s Choice Award was the The Papapetrou Family by Anne Zahalka, acquired for the Tweed Regional Gallery’s Permanent Collection through funds from the Friends of the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc.
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Jonathan Jones and tourism in galleries
Jonathan Jones on getting rid of tourists rushing through galleries – to bring back slow tourisms – urging people to stop and enjoy the art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
The plague of art prizes in Australia
A wonderful piece by Sasha Grishin – posted to his blog. Worth the read definitely.
Hokusai and Japonisme
David Stephenson and Martin Walch
Exhibition: The Derwent
Exhibition now open at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart).
2017 Archibald, Wynne & Sulman prizes
Click on image above for the AGNSW news on the winners
The Archibald
Archibald finalists & why Tony Albert deserves to win
Detail from Tony Albert Self-portrait (ash on me), acrylic on linen.102 x 102 cm.© the artist Photo: Jenni Carter, AGNSW
Yass public art
Wonderful to see a regional council investing in public art – click here for the story.
Politics of landscape
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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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