Tilt: Belinda Fox & Neville French
An intriguing and beautiful exhibition is currently on at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Category: artists
Neil Roberts
NEIL ROBERTS chances with glass
17 August to 15 October 2017
Curated by: Barbara Campbell and Jane Cush Continue reading “Neil Roberts”
Cezanne Portraits
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 Studio
Matisse in the StudioRoyal Academy, London until 12 November
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Joan Ross
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
Xanthe Gay
exhibition: Botanica Eclectica at X Gallery
Silver exhibition dedicated to Robert Foster
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Politics of landscape
the 2017 Wynne Prize finalists
Wynne Prize 2017 finalist James Drinkwater, ‘Passage to Rungli Rungliot’, oil on hardboard, 180x360cm. © the artist Photo: Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW Prudence Gibson, UNSW
Discovering Charles Meere
Book Review: Joy Eadie, Discovering Charles Meere: Art and Allusion
Sasha Grishin has been busy again
Making Modernism at the AGNSW
Exhibition: O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith
making modernism – the work of three artists, Margaret Preston, Crace Cossington Smith and Georgia O’Keeffe – until 2 Oct 2017.
The meeting at ANCA
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
Andrew Wyeth and the artist’s fragile reputation
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
Sidney Nolan, Riverbend
ANU Drill Hall – a visual arts treasure
There’s a treasure now on a much improved permanent exhibition in Canberra – namely:
Robert Boynes
Exhibition: Modern Times at the Drill Hall Gallery
This survey of works by Robert Boynes is one very engaging exhibition.
Penny Byrne
More wonderful art by Penny Byrne
Margaret Dodd
Celebrating the feminist Holden
Margaret Dodd’s Bridal Holden, 1977, ceramic sculpture, 24 x 42 x 20 cm. Clay Glen. Courtesy The Cross Art Projects. Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW
Contour 556
Contour 556 is a national public sculpture biennial, for Australia’s capital.
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
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
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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.
Singapore pioneer artist Ong Kim Seng
Painting sells for personal record price of $130,540
Click here for the news on this amazing auction sale.
The Fourth Plinth
News for 2018 and 2020
Click here for news on upcoming works to be atop the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square.
Yayoi Kusama
Vermeer
Traces of Vermeer
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.
David Hockney
Exhibition: Current at the NGV
I recommend David Hockney’s extraordinary exhibition in Melbourne – till 13 March 2017.
Penny Byrne
Exhibition: Brutal at Linden New Art
At Linden in St Kilda (Melbourne) till 8th March 2017.
Brook Andrew
Exhibition: The Right To Offend Is Sacred
An exhibition till 4th June 2017, by Brook Andrew at the State Gallery in Victoria (NGV*).
Vermeer at the Louvre
Jonathan Jones recognises the genius of Vermeer
Click on the above for Jonathan Jones’s piece in The Guardian on Vermeer.
Artists and the Trump
20 artists respond to Trump
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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.
Peter Conrad on Turner
Revisiting a review of a Tate exhibition of Late Turner
This 2014 exhibition at the Tate was a magnificent exhibition.
David Hockney in Melbourne
The NGV opens with David Hockney’s recent work
This exhibition is worth the visit to Melbourne. It is a collection of David Hockney’s work since the year 2,000.
The Māori Portraits at Auckland City Gallery
The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand
Continue reading “The Māori Portraits at Auckland City Gallery”
Women in Abstract Expressionisism
Yes they were there
click here – for a story on the presence of females amongst the abstract expressionists.
Joan Carlile
Tate Acquires Portrait by One of Europe’s First Female Professional Painters, Joan Carlile
Ross Bleckner
Jonathan Jones of The Guardian on Ross Bleckner
A story from The Guardian on Ross Bleckner and how artists rework ideas – producing similar works of art.