Public Art Festival launch
The 2018 festival program of public art in Canberra, Contour 556/2018 has been launched by Neil Hobbs & Karina Harris
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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.
The National Gallery has bought a rare painting by 17th Century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi for £3.6m.
This exhibition of 20 works by Hilarie Mais presents a recent decade of practice. It is an exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney) showing at the Drill Hall in Canberra till 29th July 2018.
An unexpected thing happened last Sunday as I went through the Indigenous Galleries at the National Gallery of Australia – the NGA. Continue reading “Emily Kame Kngwarreye at the NGA”
My piece on their current exhibition as well as comments about the future of the gallery – click here.
At the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) – the city gallery in Canberra.
We have uploaded a couple of times now on the research on whether Vermeer used a Camera Obscura as part of his process for some of his paintings. Now there’s more.. Continue reading “Vermeer”
Local artist wins prize – creativity recognised. Well done Brenda.
Posted by The Art Museum on Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Exhibition: Rembrandt and the Dutch golden age
masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum
for fans of Michael Taylor’s work and for those wanting to see the works of a highly successful artist – get yourself along to nancy Sever’s new gallery at Gorman House in Canberra. Recommended.
Good piece by Gina Fairley on women in public art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The other day I visited the NGA and was very pleasantly surprised by an exhibition in the first Australian Art exhibition space (near the old front door).
(originally published on a Word or Two)
It has been a while since I wandered into the exhibition venues of Craft ACT , the local craft council. On the main walls was an exhibition “Art Quilt Australia: people, place and nation“.
An intriguing and beautiful exhibition is currently on at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
17 August to 15 October 2017
Curated by: Barbara Campbell and Jane Cush Continue reading “Neil Roberts”
Jonathan Jones on the influence of CézanneCézanne Portraits at Musée d’Orsay, Paris, til 24 SeptNational Portrait Gallery, London from 26 Oct til 11 Feb 2018.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 11 August 2017
Matisse in the StudioRoyal Academy, London until 12 November
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
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
Wynne Prize 2017 finalist James Drinkwater, ‘Passage to Rungli Rungliot’, oil on hardboard, 180x360cm. © the artist Photo: Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW Prudence Gibson, UNSW
Sasha Grishin has been busy again
making modernism – the work of three artists, Margaret Preston, Crace Cossington Smith and Georgia O’Keeffe – until 2 Oct 2017.
Walking in on an artist’s install of their exhibition can be an interesting way to learn more about an artist and their work.
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
There’s a treasure now on a much improved permanent exhibition in Canberra – namely:
This survey of works by Robert Boynes is one very engaging exhibition.
Margaret Dodd’s Bridal Holden, 1977, ceramic sculpture, 24 x 42 x 20 cm. Clay Glen. Courtesy The Cross Art Projects. Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW
There’s a great little but significant exhibition of screen prints at the Museum of Democracy in Canberra (Old Parliament House).
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
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
Rodel Tapaya has become ‘a must purchase’ by collectors of contemporary Southeast Asian art.
Exhibition: Making Modernism – exhibition of works by O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Click here for the galley page.
Click here for the news on this amazing auction sale.
Click here for news on upcoming works to be atop the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square.
Following a former post on a Vermeer exhibition, we received a comment and a link to a research site about Vermeer and how it is proposed that the artist used a Camera Obscura.
I recommend David Hockney’s extraordinary exhibition in Melbourne – till 13 March 2017.
At Linden in St Kilda (Melbourne) till 8th March 2017.
An exhibition till 4th June 2017, by Brook Andrew at the State Gallery in Victoria (NGV*).
One of my favourite places in the National Gallery of Australia is the seat in front of their Mark Rothko painting.
This 2014 exhibition at the Tate was a magnificent exhibition.