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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This is the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2012 – 31st December 2012 . Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Paul Strand / Rebecca Strand Emmet Gowin / Edith Gowin Harry Callahan / Eleanor and Barbara Callahan...
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Hine: Photography for a Change’ at the Netherlands Museum...
Exhibition dates: 15th September – 6th January 2013 . “In the last analysis, good photography is a question of art.” “I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things...
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Exhibitions: ‘Howard Greenberg, Collection’ and ‘Freaks, The Monstrous...
Exhibition dates: both 21st September 2012 – 6th January 2013 . This is a meta-post where I have brought together photographs from the second exhibition Freaks, The Monstrous Parade: Photographs from...
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Exhibition: ‘Manuel Álvarez Bravo. A Photographer on the Watch (1902-2002)’...
Exhibition dates: 16th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . What a dazzling, sensual (sur)realist Manuel Álvarez Bravo was, one of my favourite photographers of all time. What an eye, what an artist! The...
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Text: ‘Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale’ in...
. “What does it mean, to rediscover an unknown continent through the medium of photography in the 21st century? The seven artists that appear in this “Unfound in Australia” issue are well versed in the...
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Exhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . In this bumper posting, a big call: in my opinion, the greatest photography based image maker in the world today. Tillmans challenges the way we...
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Exhibition: ‘Imogen Cunningham’ at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 18th September 18 2012 – 20th January 2013 . This is the first posting on one of my favourite photographers of all time: Imogen Cunningham. The sensuality of this artist, from the...
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Exhibition: ‘Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS’ at Invisible-Exports, New York
Exhibition dates: 14th December 2012 – 27th January 27 2013 . ** Warning this posting contains male nudity – oh no! ** There are some appealing but relatively tame photographs from one of the doyens of...
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Exhibition: ‘Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour’ at Somerset House, London
Exhibition dates: 8th November 2012 – 27th January 2013 . They may be channelling the master, but none does it like Cartier-Bresson. There is a spareness and spatial intensity to Cartier-Bresson’s work...
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Exhibition: ‘nude men: from 1800 to the present day’ at the Leopold Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – extended until 4th March 2013 . . Martin Ferdinand Quadal Nude Life Class at the Vienna Art Academy in the St.-Anna-Gebäude 1787 © Paintings Gallery of the Academy...
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Winner of the 2013 Montalto Sculpture Prize: ‘Abundance’ by Fredrick White
Exhibition dates: 17th February – 28th April 2013 . Congratulations to my best friend Fredrick White on winning the 2013 Montalto Sculpture Prize. Nobody deserves it more than you Fred. You work so...
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Exhibition: ‘South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest...
Exhibition dates: 1st December 2012 – 5th March 2013 . “We were insiders, all three of us: Ernest Cole, Billy Monk, and me. We each photographed from the inside what we most intimately knew. Cole was...
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Exhibition: ‘Carine Thevenau: Return To Huldra’s Wood’ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 13th February – 9th March 2013 . Sometimes I just want to surround myself with objects that are beautiful, that give me pleasure in the act of looking. I just want to look at a...
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Review: ‘Louise Bourgeois: Late Works’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 24th November 2012 – 11th March 2013 Louise Bourgeois & Australian Artists 13 October 2012 – 14 April 2013 . . “What counts, our whole purpose, is to try to understand what we are...
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Review: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGVA, National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . “My work is a reconstruction and reconstruction is a philosophical activity. If I can create a drama that has philosophical meaning, that’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ’ at The Los Angeles County Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 21st October 2012 – 24th March 2013 . “The X Portfolio centers on men engaged in gay sex, including hard-core sadomasochism. The subject wasn’t entirely new. In Greek vase...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe’ at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los...
Exhibition dates: 23rd October 2012 – 24th March 2013 . One of the reasons for setting up Art Blart nearly five years ago was the idea of an exhibition archive – the cataloguing of the blog’s posts so...
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Exhibition: ‘Catherine Opie’ at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Exhibition dates: 23rd February – 29th March 2013 . In a nutshell: good presentation, good idea – just needs really good pictures. In fact the presentation is too good for the pictures, so in the end...
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Exhibition: ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’ at the Victoria and...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2012 – 7th April 2013 From the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum . A massive posting on a fascinating subject. I...
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