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This message from QAGOMA about an amazingly generous gift.
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This message from QAGOMA about an amazingly generous gift.
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Photography is alive and well – at the MGA (Melbourne)
The 2018 festival program of public art in Canberra, Contour 556/2018 has been launched by Neil Hobbs & Karina Harris
A full program of public art announced with heaps of artists to be on exhibition in Canberra.
A photography exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Washington till 2 June 2019 – Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting
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When there are so many things to be thinking about – the Crimes of Canberra has a focus on the purchase of chairs at the NGA.
Josef Lebovic Gallery (Sydney)Entertainment Posters Part 1 Catalogue – link to a pdf
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 26 March 2018
Angela Philp, first Director of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, died in Newcastle on January 29 2018. Helen Musa's notice below from City News.
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 13 February 2018
news about Art Stage Singapore – Jan 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 2 December 2017
GERHARD RICHTER: THE LIFE OF IMAGES14 OCT 2017 – 4 FEB 2018 GOMA, Brisbane
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 9 October 2017
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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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
Posted by Benjamin Milton Hampe on Monday, 21 August 2017
Malay artefacts on exhibit at Singapore National Library
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 20 August 2017
10 Nov 2017 – 12 March 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
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
exhibition: Botanica Eclectica at X Gallery
Silver exhibition dedicated to Robert Foster
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Inaugural Venice Glass Week, 10-17 September, will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium. click here
Detail from Tony Albert Self-portrait (ash on me), acrylic on linen.102 x 102 cm.© the artist Photo: Jenni Carter, AGNSW
Wonderful to see a regional council investing in public art – click here for the story.
Wynne Prize 2017 finalist James Drinkwater, ‘Passage to Rungli Rungliot’, oil on hardboard, 180x360cm. © the artist Photo: Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW Prudence Gibson, UNSW
The Tweed Regional Gallery has announced the winners of the 2017 Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture.
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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
I think this may be an interesting exhibition. Maybe!
Margaret Dodd’s Bridal Holden, 1977, ceramic sculpture, 24 x 42 x 20 cm. Clay Glen. Courtesy The Cross Art Projects. Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW
A good report has been released and it breaks down the stats around public support for the arts – but..
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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.
from the listing:
As listed: Dr Anne Mary Gray AM
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.
Was it a mistake for arts schools to be amalgamated into universities?
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?
and to add to the heading – being sidelined by conservative governments and their agencies.
click on the image or here for Penny Craswell’s blog and her review of the new Design Museum in London
There’s a great little but significant exhibition of screen prints at the Museum of Democracy in Canberra (Old Parliament House).
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3-28 May 2017
Print your own masterpieces and digital pens – the brave new world of the museum
Exhibition: Making Modernism – exhibition of works by O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Click here for the galley page.
This exhibition at the Gold Museum in Ballarat is good news following the more devastating news on the cancelling of the TV series.
from ArtsHub – QAGGOMA gets a new Deputy Director – see below
11 Mar 2017 – 11 Jun 2017