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British Algae by Anna Atkin was the first book ever to be illustrated with photography, and the images within it were the first photographs ever used for scientific illustration.
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Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris UlmannGeorgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia USA)Until 18 November 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 25 August 2018
Here’s yet another story about children running around artworks as if it is a playground.
A photography exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Washington till 2 June 2019 – Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting
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There’s a story in the Los Angeles Times that has implications for the management of all public art galleries, large and small.
An exhibition notice for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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And for more on Harold Edgerton – see also Gael Newton’s 1999 paper for the catalogue at the National Gallery of Australia – click here.
So Wim Wenders thinks photography is dead. I think I last heard that about a decade ago. How long before the next time…
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 14 October 2017
a good review by Dr Marcus Bunyan (Art Blart) of Gregory Crewdson's latest works – agree with his take on the treatment of women in these photographs.
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 16 September 2017
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
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.
a wonderful story about public art
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
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 PhotographyRed Spotted Purple: Roman Vishniac Science Worktill oct 27, 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
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
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham-Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
First saw the works of this artist as listed for exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 presents the work of ten photographers. Click here for more.
Exhibition of photographs – from The Washington Post – click here.
Click on image for the story on ArtNews
New Yorkers have reacted positively to the actions by MoMa to change some of the western art on exhibition for art by artists from countries banned by Trump. Click on the image above for the story.
click on image for the news of the exhibition of Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ – chosen by him to best represent his work.
click on the image for the story of how art galleries could make a stand against the Trump actions on equity and immigration.
Click on the image for the story on Artsy – about Frederick Douglass and his love and use of photography. “How Frederick Douglass Harnessed the Power of Portraiture to Reframe Blackness in America”
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco – click on the image.
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
click on the image for the debate at SFMOMA
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (click on image for review)
Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland) till 30 April 2017 (click on image above)
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Click on the image for news on ArtDaily.
One of my favourite places in the National Gallery of Australia is the seat in front of their Mark Rothko painting.
click on the image for the link to the Bruce Museum
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We visited the Cindy Sherman Brisbane exhibition in July 2016.
The theme of FotoFocus 2016 is “The Un-Document,” and presents photography from over 100 international artists in 60 venues.
From the gallery: This exhibition offered a glimpse of the lost architecture of preindustrial London, as captured in a series of carbon photoprints commissioned between 1875 and 1886 by the short-lived Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London.
An online feature about another wonderful landscape photographer.
click on image for the exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery.
click here – for a story on the presence of females amongst the abstract expressionists.
click on image for more on the Christie’s Photographs sales October 2016
We all wish there were more supporters for public art.
Wow! – at last. Exhibitions come and go (disappear).
At last some has agreed how important it is to have a visual record of exhibitions and to make the visual records available as an international resource. Click here.
A story from The Guardian on Ross Bleckner and how artists rework ideas – producing similar works of art.
