The Sell: Australian Advertising 1790s–1990s
Month: December 2016
climarte
Acland Street Public Art Commission
Expressions of Interest are due by 5pm on 3 February 2017
Photography at AGNSW
Review: New matter : recent forms of photography
It is always good to wander into the Art Gallery of NSW and visit their photography exhibitions.
The Photography Show NY 2017
nativity paintings
Jonathan Jones looks at Christmas cards – click on the image
More Versailles at NGA
Versailles at NGA
National Gallery of Australia – Versailles exhibition
The 2016 summer exhibition at the NGA in Canberra is Versailles Treasures from the Palace – until 17 April 2017.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Werner Bischof
The Hague Museum of Photography celebrates Werner Bischof
contemporary female photographers
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibits contemporary photography
Always welcomed – exhibitions of photography.
Cruise auction
Buying art on a cruise? Surely not.
This story is still hard to believe. Do people really buy art while floating around on a cruise ship?
After Baldus: Travels in a Wounded Landscape
photography at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Click on the image for the link to the exhibition by Theo Baart and Cary Markerink
More NGA stories
Librarians gone – and the cover story
There are so many things to love about the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) – but..
Broken Hill Art Exchange open-entry competition
What is this landscape about
Jonathan Jones on cherishing the landscape
Click on the image to see the point being made – it’s a good one!
Mark Rothko
Pace Gallery (NY): Rothko: Dark Palette
One of my favourite places in the National Gallery of Australia is the seat in front of their Mark Rothko painting.
photography
Jane Brown, photographer (UK) – dies age 89
Click on the image for the tribute in The Guardian
Robert Rauschenberg
Review: Robert Rauschenberg at the TATE
I could spend hours writing about some of the stuff now being exhibited as being contemporary art.
Australian Impressionism
review: Australia’s Impressionists at National Gallery London
A good review of these Australian works in the London exhibition – click on the image for the link to The Guardian
arts funding
How class shapes art in 21st century Australia
An excellent article by Ellena Savage – click on the image
Beaver Galleries
A success story for a Canberra commercial gallery
Click on the image for the story Beaver Galleries, one of Australia’s longest running commercial galleries – here in Canberra.
Asian Civilisation Museum
Port Cities Exhibition
click on image for news notice – or here for the museum link
Asian Civilisation Museum
Myanmar’s treasures on display at ACM, Singapore
click on image for news on exhibition – or here to link to ACM
new on Art Blat
Exhibition: ‘Lewis Baltz NEVADA’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California
Versailles at NGA
NGA’s 2016 summer blockbuster
The National Gallery of Australia’s ‘blockbuster’ for summer 2016- till 17th April 2017 – click here
FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970s
Photographers Gallery London till 29th Jan 2017
Townsville Perc Tucker Gallery
Another hit by corporate consultants
Two stories that provide an overview of what happens when a local council takes the advice of the latest fashionable corporate consultants.
photography
photography at the CCP Melbourne
Click on the image for the winners of the competition, CCP Salon.
The Sell
National Library of Australia exhibition
click on image for information
Jonathan Jones on painting
A second coat: why painting is the comeback art of the 21st century
Peter Conrad on Turner
Revisiting a review of a Tate exhibition of Late Turner
This 2014 exhibition at the Tate was a magnificent exhibition.
Athol Shmith
Photography exhibition at the National Library Canberra
click on image for information on this small exhibition
Photography at the V&A
Exhibitions at the V&A in London
click on the image above
photo access canberra
December 2016 exhibitions
Click on the image for the exhibition information
Brett Weston at the Bruce Museum
Towards Abstraction, 1940-1985: Brett Weston
click on the image for the link to the Bruce Museum
Brassaï at Centre Pompidou
an exhibition to the Graffiti series by Brassaï
Click on image above for link to exhibition notice on Artdaily.
Megalo–doing proud by Canberra
The visual arts in Canberra is a very active scene. It has been thus for several decades.