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Exhibition: ‘John Wolseley – Heartlands and Headwaters’ at The Ian Potter...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 16th August 2015 This is a wondrous exhibition by John Wolseley at NGV Australia. The whole feeling of the exhibition, its scale and intimacy, the attention to detail...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,...
Exhibition dates: 13th March – 13th September 2015 Curators: The exhibition is curated by Jérôme Neutres from Paris with Director Pirkko Siitari and Chief Curator Marja Sakari from Kiasma. These...
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Exhibition: ‘The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott...
Exhibition dates: 13 February – 30 August 2015 This is more like it… what a find! There are some fascinating punctum (which denote the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott’ at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
ustExhibition dates: 17th January 2015 – 13th September 2015 Robert and Jane Burke Gallery (Gallery 335) It’s been a really tough time writing the Art Blart recently, as my beloved Apple Pro tower...
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Exhibition: ‘When we share more than ever’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 20th September 2015 A project for the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015 Curators: Dr des. Esther Ruelfs and Teresa Gruber Invited artists: Laia Abril, Ai Weiwei,...
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Exhibition: ‘Storm in a Teacup’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 27th September 2015 This is the best thematic group exhibition I have seen in Melbourne and surrounds this year. Every piece in the exhibition is visually stimulating...
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Exhibition: ‘Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 27th September 2015 The Sackler Wing of Galleries Now, Voyager . “The untold want by life and land ne’er granted, Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” Walt...
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Exhibition: ‘Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 30th September 2015 There has always been a history of hand colouring in photography since its very early days – from daguerreotypes, through ambrotypes, cartes de...
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Exhibition: ‘From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola’...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 4th October 2015 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor The work of Greta Stern is the better known of these two artists (Ringl + Pit studio and the...
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Text / exhibition: ‘David Bowie is’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving...
Exhibition dates: 16th July – 1st November 2015 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces This text was written for a special LGBTQI themed edition of the peer reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday night, especially to see this exhibition on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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Exhibition: ‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World’ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 25th October 2015 Linbury Galleries A national treasure. An old soul. My favourite period of Hepworth’s is the 1940s-1950s, when she found her true voice as an artist....
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Text / Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss The road less travelled It was a flying visit to Sydney to see the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Art Gallery of...
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Exhibition: ‘Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World’ at...
Exhibition dates: 28th July – 1st November 2015 Curated by Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, both of the J. Paul Getty Museum The fascination continues. All these centuries later. Marcus . Many...
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Exhibition: ‘Herb Ritts’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 8th November, 2015 Another artist lost too soon to HIV/AIDS. At least we have these fine classics to remember him by. The portrait of Nelson Mandela is especially...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography – A Victorian Sensation’ at the National Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 22nd November 2015 In our contemporary image-saturated, comprehensively mediated way of life it is difficult for us to understand how “sensational” photography would...
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The second part of this monster two-part posting. Highlights include the delicacy and strength of the William Blake, the stunning beauty of...
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Exhibition: ‘Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel’ at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 5th September 2015 – 6th December 2015 Curator: Anna Tellgren Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) achieved more in five years of artistic creativity than many artists achieve in a...
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Exhibition: ‘Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei’ at the National Gallery of Victoria,...
Exhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 24th April 2016 A monster posting of installation images of the exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei at the National Gallery of Victoria, in chronological...
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