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Review: ‘Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
In their artExhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 24th April 2016 In collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Time lapse This mega-exhibition has been a popular success for the...
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Exhibition: ‘Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Photography in Japan...
Exhibition dates: 29th January – 8th May 2016 I absolutely love Japanese photography from this period. Subjective photographs with a gutsy pictorial language: rough, grainy, and blurred intimations...
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Exhibition: ‘Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind’ at SCA Galleries, Sydney...
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 7th May 2016 Taken as a whole, the artist Roger Ballen’s body of work is exceptionally strong. From his early documentary series Dorps (1986) and Platteland (1996)...
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Exhibition: ‘Gerda Wegener’ at ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
Exhibition dates: 7th November 2015 – 8th January 2017 GERDA WEGENER: The unusual story of a love between painter and muse that transcends gender boundaries. Just a small comment on this posting as...
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Exhibition: ‘François Kollar. A Working Eye’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 9th February – 22nd May 2016 Curators: Matthieu Rivallin, collections officer, Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, and Pia Viewing, curator – researcher at the Jeu...
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Exhibition: ‘Capa in Color’ at Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours
Exhibition dates: 21st November 2015 – 29th May 2016 Curator: Cynthia Young, curator at Robert Capa archives To be honest, Robert Capa was not the most natural colour photographer, especially when...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks’ at the Palm Springs...
Exhibition dates: 20th February – 29th May 2016 Not only was he one of the greatest ethnographic photographers of all time (as well as being an ethnographer recording more than 10,000 songs on a...
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Exhibition: ‘Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World’ at the Morgan...
Exhibition dates: 19th February – 30th May 2016 This looks to be a fascinating exhibition. I wish I could see it. While Sight Reading cuts across conventional historical and geographic divisions,...
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Exhibition: ‘Jan Senbergs: Observation – Imagination’ at The Ian Potter...
Exhibition dates: 18th March – 12th June 2016 You only have five days left to catch what I consider to be one of the best exhibitions I have seen this year in Melbourne. If ever there was a man...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: England, 1993
I finally got around to scanning some more of my black and white archive, this time further photographs from a trip to England in 1993 forming a new sequence. The photographs picture my now ageing...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Henson: Landscapes’ at Castlemaine Art Gallery and...
Exhibition dates: 30th April – 30th June 2016 Drawing on light A magnificent installation from one of the world’s great photographers. Why this artist is not having sell out retrospectives at MoMA...
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Exhibition: ‘RealSurreal. Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography’ at Museum...
Exhibition dates: 1st April 2016 – 24th July 2016 I loved putting the Florence Henri and the skull together. Too exhausted after a long day at work to say much else! Marcus . Many thankx to Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 3rd July 2016 Last day for this exhibition from one of the masters of photography. Apologies to the gallery and the readers that I did not get the posting up earlier...
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Review: ‘Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain’...
Exhibition dates: 31st May – 24th July 2016 National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition Curator: Shaune Lakin An independent vision Pictorialism, Surrealism and Modernism: Light, geometry...
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Exhibition: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ at the Metropolitan...
Exhibition dates: 7th March – 31st July 2016 One wrong does not a life make A very large posting on a fascinating subject, for an exhibition that examines “the numerous ways that photography has...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 31st July 2016 The Perfect Moment, The Perfect Medium and … Mapplethorpe, that seminal exhibition for Australia that I saw at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the Los Angeles...
Exhibition dates: 20th March – 31st July 2016 Robert Mapplethorpe is a formalist. Apollonian and Dionysian ideals are two sides of the same coin. Marcus . Many thankx to the Los Angeles County Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘Roberto Donetta Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal’...
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 4th September 2016 I have found a hidden gem in Roberto Donetta. He has become one of my favourite photographers, this seed salesman from Bleniotal, who died in obscurity...
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Exhibition: ‘An Anonymous Art: American Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen...
Exhibition dates: 15th April – 4th September 2016 Dis/membering the snapshot To say that I dislike the term “snapshot” is an understatement. The term snap/shot implies a lack of consideration in the...
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Exhibition: ‘A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 25th March – 4th September 2016 Curator: Christine Macel Artists include: Pawel Althamer/ Maja Bajević / Yto Barrada / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Taysir Batniji / Christian Boltanski /...
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