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Tag: visual arts
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Tilt: Belinda Fox & Neville French
An intriguing and beautiful exhibition is currently on at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Neil Roberts
NEIL ROBERTS chances with glass
17 August to 15 October 2017
Curated by: Barbara Campbell and Jane Cush Continue reading “Neil Roberts”
A Century of Japanese Prints
A Century of Japanese PrintsAugust 11, 2017—January 28, 2018Saint Louis Art Museum
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 14 August 2017
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
bring back our art galleries
Jonathan Jones on getting rid of tourists rushing through galleries – to bring back slow tourisms – urging people to stop and enjoy the art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
Jonathan Jones review
Jonathan Jones reviews Matisse in the StudioRoyal Academy, London, 5 August to 12 November
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
Venice Glass Week
City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry
Inaugural Venice Glass Week, 10-17 September, will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium. click here
Jonathan Jones and tourism in galleries
Jonathan Jones on getting rid of tourists rushing through galleries – to bring back slow tourisms – urging people to stop and enjoy the art.
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
The plague of art prizes in Australia
A wonderful piece by Sasha Grishin – posted to his blog. Worth the read definitely.
Hokusai and Japonisme
David Stephenson and Martin Walch
Exhibition: The Derwent
Exhibition now open at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart).
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
art of the Philippines at AGNSW
Passion and procession: art of the Philippines
24 June – 12 November 2017 at the Art Gallery of NSW
NGV Brave New World
Exhibition: Brave New World 1930s
The new major exhibition at the state gallery (NGV) is themed Brave New World 1930s.
Travellers at QAGOMA
Exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery: Travellers
I think this may be an interesting exhibition. Maybe!
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
Robert Boynes
Exhibition at May Space Gallery (Sydney)
Click here for a link to the gallery and the survey exhibition of Robert Boynes’ artworks.
Dempsey’s People at the Portrait Gallery
Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2017
Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2017
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Mid Winter – Canberra Visual Arts
My recommendations for mid winter visual arts in Canberra
Here’s a list of exhibitions I would recommend to locals and anyone thinking of visiting Canberra in mid winter 2017.
Dempsey’s People at the Portrait Gallery
Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (Canberra)
This is a very special exhibition – a real gem.
NGA exhibitions
A 2017 mid winter meander through the NGA
There is a load of reasons why you should visit the NGA right now..
Sidney Nolan, Riverbend
ANU Drill Hall – a visual arts treasure
There’s a treasure now on a much improved permanent exhibition in Canberra – namely:
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
Australians, Australia Council and the Visual Arts
How Australian engage with the arts
A good report has been released and it breaks down the stats around public support for the arts – but..
Continue reading “Australians, Australia Council and the Visual Arts”
contemporary art and public galleries
Why does contemporary art make for wildly popular blockbusters?
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.
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.
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.
Contour 556
Contour 556 is a national public sculpture biennial, for Australia’s capital.
Visual Arts and the media
Sidelining of the visual arts by mainstream media
and to add to the heading – being sidelined by conservative governments and their agencies.
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
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.
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…
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.
The Photography Room
April 2017 exhibitions at The Photography Room
Canberra’s The Photography Room continues to provide an amazing array of photography exhibition.
NGA Filipino art review
A review on ArtsHub by Gina Fairley
click here for the review – but sit down and prepare yourself as it is a bit of a scorcher!
Honolulu Biennial 2017
The National 2017
Exhibition Review : The National at the Art Gallery of NSW
My reactions? Ernest, many social issues, not much fun, no contemporary photography, installations, some painting, and a feeling that you may have seen much of this before.
Elaine Campaner
Exhibition: Elaine Campaner at Gallery 9
Always an enjoyable viewing, managed to see the latest works by Elaine Campaner – recommended.
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
Review by Peter Haynes
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean – click on image.