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
NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial
A quick tour of the NGA exhibition
This tour is meant to whet your appetite for this NGA exhibition – The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial.Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
Culture Heist
Culture Heist, Art versus Money, by Judith White
I plan to offer some comments on this book very soon – meanwhile there’s a post online by Judith that is worth reading. Click here.
NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial
A review by Sasha Grishin
This NGA exhibition is an exhibition of contemporary art that should not be missed. It’s very good.Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
Looking for arts policy
will we ever have an arts minister?
While Australia is a great country – it has been a long time since we have experienced a government that was actually committed to its culture.
Meiji Japan at NLA
Sydney University & Arts Schools
Another bad decision by the University of Sydney
Was it a mistake for arts schools to be amalgamated into universities?
V&A photographic centre
designs for new V&A Photography Centre
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed a visual of its new Photography Centre – click here
outdoor sculpture festival
“Sculpture on the Campus”
Canberra Grammar School, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, until Saturday, June 18.
Meiji Japan at NLA
Joanna Sassoon
Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped Australia
For nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors?
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
MGA Call for entries
Entries now invited
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Anne Zahalka at Albury
Exhibition: The Landscape Revisited
Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA – till Sunday 5th November 2017
Contour 556
Contour 556 is a national public sculpture biennial, for Australia’s capital.
Culture Heist
Book Notice: Culture Heist, Judith White
ART VERSUS MONEY: The fight for the soul of a
great public institution
Stills Gallery: Curtain Call
Scenes from the Exhibition
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition – Curtin Call
NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial
Defying Empire: the legacy of 1967
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Venice Biennale
There was something about the under reporting of the 2017 Venice Biennale that made me wonder.
Frank Hurley & Australian Native Plants
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEY
Searching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
Europeana Photography
Europe’s rich photographic heritage
click on image for the new portal on European photography collections. A fantastic research tool.
Visual Arts and the media
Sidelining of the visual arts by mainstream media
and to add to the heading – being sidelined by conservative governments and their agencies.
news on photography at the NGA
NGA photography news from Shaune Lakin, senior curator photography. (taken from his May 2017 newsletter – plus a little more)
Australian Art Auction
equity in LA arts
an amazing study on the equity (or the lack of it) in the multicultural city of Los Angeles. Click here.
Auckland festival of photography
Auckland photography festival update
Click here for the newsletter update on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography – or
Shadows Are Cast By Things And People
ACP Exhibition
A notice for an exhibition by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Head On Photography
click here for the latest notice about Sydney’s photography festival – HEAD ON – 2 weeks to go.
Tracey Moffatt at 2017 Venice Biennale
Canberra Visual Arts in May
Visual Arts exhibitions May 2017
Here’s a few of the exhibitions in Canberra this month.
Stills Gallery: Curtain Call
Exhibition: Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Still have given notice of their final exhibition.
With Curtain Call, Stills Gallery is looking back over the history of the gallery and presents the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including:
Michael Reid: Christian Thompson
Christian Thompson at Michael Reid till 10June
Click here for more on the exhibition at Michael Reid of Christian Thompson’s photography exhibition.
Research: Belinda Hungerford
New paper uploaded on photography research
Click on the image above to see a new research paper by Belinda Hungerford that has been uploaded to photoweb.
The Photography Room May-June 2017
3 New Exhibitions at The Photography Room
Dörte Conroy – What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim – Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
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Design Museum, London
Review Penny Craswell / The Design Writer
click on the image or here for Penny Craswell’s blog and her review of the new Design Museum in London
photoaccess
Exhibition: Chinese Whispers and Other Stories, curated by Pia Johnson
This photoaccess exhibition is an exhibition I recommend – not because all the works are successful – but for combined messages.
One to eight
A contemporary art project – Alison Alder
There’s a great little but significant exhibition of screen prints at the Museum of Democracy in Canberra (Old Parliament House).
Charles Blackman
The schoolgirls of Charles Blackman – haunting works from a politically innocent age
Part of Charles Blackman’s The Exchange, 1952, oil on plywood on composition board. 91.7 x 91.7 cm. National Gallery of Victoria © Charles Blackman