Reinterpreting the Sunbaker
a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
Category: Australia
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.
Coffee in O’Connor
Keeping warm and enjoying a coffee
Time out on a freezing cold morning in Canberra
GAG Projects, Greenaway Art Gallery
Nasim Nasr – The Home
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?
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
Continue reading “William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize”
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
Continue reading “NGA: The Third National Indigenous Art Triennial”
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?
Australian Art Auction
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
Continue reading “The Photography Room May-June 2017”
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
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh and the Seasons is a sensitively curated crowd-pleaser despite a paucity of masterpieces
A detail from Vincent Van Gogh’s A wheatfield, with cypresses, early September 1889.National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1923 (NG3861) © The National Gallery, London
Anzac Parade Monuments –public art serving a great purpose
There is no doubt that Anzac Parade is very special.
Continue reading “Anzac Parade Monuments –public art serving a great purpose”
HEAD ON
HEAD ON photography festival (Sydney)
click on the image for the latest on the HEAD ON photography Festival
5th -28 May 2017
The National 2017
Exhibition Review : Review by John McDonald
His heading says it all – The National: three galleries and 48 artists adds up to mostly lacklustre affair.
Eduardo Masferre
Exhibition: Eduardo Masferre at the NGA
There’s a wonderful set of photographs by Eduardo Masferre presently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Pipilotti Rist
NGA Video: Worry will vanish revelation
A special room has been constructed downstairs for this video by Pipilotti Rist.
Rodel Tapaya
NGA Exhibition – Rodel Tapaya – New art from the Philippines
Rodel Tapaya has become ‘a must purchase’ by collectors of contemporary Southeast Asian art.
Michael Reid
Exhibition: Michael Doolan
click on image for more…
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Print your own masterpieces and digital pens – the brave new world of the museum
O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)
Exhibition: Making Modernism – exhibition of works by O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Click here for the galley page.
Bill Henson
NGV Festival of Photography: Bill Henson
Click here for the very informative review by Richard Johnstone of the Bill Henson exhibition at the NGV – part of their festival of photography.
The National 2017
Exhibition Review : Review by Sasha Grishin
Sasha’s review was very cautious – and he seems to have avoided any criticisms. Click here.
PhotoAccess
PhotoAccess exhibition: Common Ground
If you are interested in seeing a mixture of contemporary photography – then get yourself over to Manuka and visit PhotoAccess to enjoy their members’ exhibition – Common Ground.