Exhibition: ‘Félix Thiollier (1842-1914), photographs’ at the Musée d’Orsay,...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2013 – 10th March 2014 . “Why is the price of justice so high?” . Maheude, Germinal . “Beneath the blazing of the sun, in that morning of new growth, the countryside...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art’ at...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2013 – 16th March 2014 Featured artists include Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Krull, Fernand...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr’...
Exhibition dates: 21st September 2013 – 16th March 2014 . “Be more aware of composition Don’t take boring pictures Get in closer Watch camera shake Don’t shoot too much” . Tony Ray-Jones from his...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘See the Light – Photography, Perception, Cognition: The Marjorie...
Exhibition dates: 27th October 2013 – 23rd March 2014 . It is a real joy to bring these beautiful images to you! Frederick H. Evans A Sea Of Steps – Wells Cathedral (England, 1903, below) is one of my...
View ArticleExhibition preview: ‘Out of the closets, into the streets: gay liberation...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Opening: Tuesday 22nd July, 6 – 8pm Nite Art: Wednesday 23rd July until 11pm Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John...
View ArticleReview: ‘Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck’ at Monash Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 30th March 2014 . . Installation photographs of Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck at the Monash Gallery of Art 1/ stygian gloom 2/large grouping of 14 works by...
View ArticleExhibition and book launch preview: ‘THE RENNIE ELLIS SHOW’ and ‘Decadent...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 8th June 2014 Exhibition and book launch: 3-5 pm Saturday 5th April 2014 . I saw a digital preview of the new book Rennie Ellis - Decadent 1980-2000, shown to me by the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs Of Ansel Adams’ at the Jundt...
Exhibition dates: 4th January – 29th March 2014 . Just a small celebration = this is the 900th posting on Art Blart since it started… . I sifted through all the photographs of the “war relocation...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Hans Gedda’ at the Nationalmuseum at Konstakademien, Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 5th December 2013 – 30th March 2014 . A photographer who I previously have known very little about…. Excellent portraits, with strong use of close up, chiaroscuro and diagonal,...
View ArticlePhotographic archive: ‘The Gibson archive’ at the Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG)
. “Other men have taken fine shipwreck photographs, but nowhere else in the world can one family have produced such a consistently high and poetic standard of work.” . John Fowles . “This is the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘James Turrell: A Retrospective’ at The Los Angeles County Museum...
Exhibition dates: 26th May 2013 – 6th April 2014 Many thankx to LACMA for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image....
View ArticleExhibition and book launch preview: ‘In the Folds of Hills’ by Kristian...
Exhibition dates: 1st – 8th May 2014 Exhibition opening and book launch: Thursday 1st May, 6 – 8.30 pm To be opened by Robert McFarlane Stories by Charlotte Laemmle One of my favourite contemporary...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Hermann Landshoff: A Retrospective Photographs 1930-1970′ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th November 2013 – 21st April 2014 Another artist who was lucky to escape Europe in the first years of the Second World War. I would like to see the whole exhibition. At the...
View ArticleReview: ‘Hoda Afshar / Under Western Eyes’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 3rd May 2014 Dear readers, my apologies for the lack of local reviews and postings since the beginning of the year. It’s not that I haven’t been out and about looking at...
View ArticleReview: ‘Stephen Dupont / The White Sheet Series No. 1′ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 3rd May 2014 This is a wonderful exhibition by Stephen Dupont at Edmund Pearce Gallery. Using a 4″ x 5″ Polaroid type 55 and striping away the emulsion, Dupont is left...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Photography and the American Civil War’ at the New Orleans...
Exhibition dates: 31st January – 4th May 2014 This posting continues my fascination with the American Civil War, with new photographs from the exhibition to compliment the posting I did when it was...
View ArticleText / review: ‘A Vocabulary of Printing and the Syntax of the Image’ from...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 3rd May 2014 Artists: Jane Brown, Ponch Hawkes, Siri Hayes, Ruth Maddison, Lloyd Stubber, David Tatnall, Claudia Terstappen Curated By Linsey Gosper A Vocabulary of...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Paris as Muse: Photography, 1840s-1930s’ at The Metropolitan...
Exhibition dates: 28th January – 4th May 2014 If there is one city in the world in which I would really like to live, it would be Paris. I have loved her since first going there as a teenager and she...
View ArticleMichael Leunig. ‘Meditation on two photographs’ 2014
Michael Leunig Meditation on two photographs Friday April 25, 2014 in The Age newspaper Spot on as always, Michael Leunig. You never fail to hit the mark. The Australian prime minister, Tony...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Paper’ by Rosemary Laing at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th April 2014 – 3rd May 2014 I always look forward to new work by the incomparable Rosemary Laing with great anticipation. I have never been disappointed. This magnificent group of...
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