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Exhibition: ‘Christina Broom’ at the Museum of London
Exhibition dates: 4th April – 28th September 2014 Look at the portrait at the bottom of the posting of Christina Bloom. Now there is a formidable human being. The look in the eyes shows determination...
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Exhibition: ‘The Metropolis Experiment: Vienna and the 1873 World Exhibition’...
Exhibition dates: 15th May – 28th September 2014 Many thankx to Wien Museum for allowing me to publish the art work and photographs in the posting. Please click on them for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Rothko to Richter: Mark Making in Abstract Painting from the...
Exhibition dates: 24th May – 5th October 2014 Think about the big 4 colours: Red Green Blue Yellow – and then there are the browns, the purples, magenta, cyan etc etc… Then have a look at the...
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Exhibition: ‘The Museum of Photography. A Revision’ at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Exhibition dates: 28th June – 5th October 2014 The ghost of the photography museum. The ghost of the machine. . Many thankx to Museum Ludwig for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting....
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Exhibition: ‘Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979′ at...
Exhibition dates: 28th June – 5th October 2014 Curator: Barbara Engelbach This looks like a very interesting exhibition, one which “examines documentary photographs dating from around 1979 in terms...
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Exhibition: ‘Lichtbilder. Photography at the Städel Museum from the...
Exhibition dates: 9th July – 5th October 2014 Curators: Felicity Grobien, curatorial assistant, Modern Art Department, Städel Museum; Dr Felix Krämer, head of the Modern Art Department at the Städel...
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Exhibition: ‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 5th October 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor Curators: Organized by Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, with Lucy...
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Exhibition: ‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 5th October 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor Curators: Organized by Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, with Lucy...
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1000th post on Art Blart
This is the 1000th post on Art Blart. I started the blog 6 years ago with 11 people a day reading it. Today the blog averages between 3-4,000 people a day and has over 3,000 Likes on Facebook....
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Exhibition: ‘Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War 1 and Condé...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 13th October 2014 Brave man, hanging over the side of a rickety biplane at 15,000 feet taking aerial photographs during World War One but just look at the images he...
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Exhibition: ‘Paul-Martial’s World Of Ordinary Things’ at Kunstmuseum Basel...
Exhibition dates: 5th July – 19th October 2014 My god, how can a dryer hood become so sensual? It should have been Paul-Martial’s World of Extra-Ordinary Things! Marcus . Many thankx to the...
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Review: ‘Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 8th July – 19th October 2014 Curator: Paul Martineau is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Minor White and Eugène Atget. Eugène Atget...
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Exhibition: ‘Ray K. Metzker: One and Only: Unique photographs and works on...
Exhibition dates: 4th September – 25th October 2014 Vale Ray K. Metzker. An artist who made difference. . The one and only Ray K. Metzker has made his last photograph, passing away recently at the...
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Review: ‘Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier’ at the Centre for Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 3rd October – 26th October 2014 Artists: Cherine Fahd, Vivian Maier, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Debra Phillips, Patrick Pound, Clare Rae, Simone Slee, David Wadelton And...
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Vale René Burri
Another strong, passionate photographer has gone. One of his best images and one of my favourites is Men on a rooftop (1960, below). For more images see my earlier posting René Burri: A Retrospective...
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Exhibition: ‘The World c. 1914. Colour Photography Before the Great War’ at...
Exhibition dates: 1st August – 2nd November 2014 Albert Kahn, Sergej M. Prokudin-Gorskii, Adolf Miethe One of the most beautiful postings that I have ever done on the blog. The colours, the people,...
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Exhibition: ‘Bushido: Way of the Samurai’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 4th November 2014 This is a most beautiful and refined exhibition. Despite the ferocity of the samurai, their armour is exquisite. The golden screens, the horse...
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Exhibition: ‘Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits’ at the National Portrait...
Exhibition dates: 2nd May – 2nd November 2014 Curator: National Portrait Gallery Senior Curator of Photographs Ann Shumard Decisive exposure Whether there was, or he understood there to be, a...
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Restoration project
October 2014 This is the most difficult restoration of a photograph that I have ever undertaken. The photograph is of William the great grandfather of my friend Daniel who asked me to restore the...
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Review: ‘Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage’ at the State...
Exhibition dates: 18th July – 9th November 2014 Devour the main course but don’t stay for dessert This is an exhibition in two galleries. In the first you are not allowed to take photographs but in...
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