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Review: ‘Earth Matters: contemporary photographers in the landscape’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 6th March – 3rd May 2015 The term “landscape” can be ambiguous and is often used to describe a creative interpretation of the land by an artist and the terrain itself. But there is...
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Exhibition: ‘J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 24th February – 24th May 2015 Curators: Julian Brooks, curator of drawings, and Peter Björn Kerber, assistant curator of paintings No words are necessary. Marcus . Many thankx to...
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Research paper: ‘Beginnings: The International Photographic Collection at the...
May 2015 This is a story that has never been told. It is the story of how the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia set up one of the very first photography departments in a museum in...
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Exhibition: ‘Nicolás Muller (1913-2000). Traces of exile’ at the Château de...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November 2014 – 31st May 2015 Curator: Chema Cones, a freelance curator Another artist whom I knew very little about before researching for this posting. Another human being...
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Exhibition: ‘Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 23rd January – 4th September 2015 Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN EROTIC ACTIVITY AND NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT...
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Exhibition: ‘Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 23rd January – 4th September 2015 Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN EROTIC ACTIVITY AND NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT...
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Exhibition: ‘The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the SAMMLUNG...
Exhibition dates: 13th March – 31st May 2015 Early Cindy Sherman, very good; Francesca Woodman, wow; but Ana Mendieta, you are a star! Marcus . Many thankx to the Hamburger Kunsthalle for allowing me...
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Andy Warhol unplugged 2
May 2015 Andy Warhol being, well … Andy Warhol. Artist, tourist, celebrity, poofter, man about town and spontaneous, thoughtful snapper. The photograph of the Prado at night is superb as are the...
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Exhibition: ‘Hal Fischer, Gay Semiotics, 1977/2014′ at the Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 8th May – 7th June 2015 I remember coming out in 1975, six years after Stonewall, that seismic event that was the out and proud culmination of the resistance to oppression that had...
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Exhibition: ‘The photograph and Australia’ at the Art Gallery of New South...
Exhibition dates: 21st March – 8th June 2015 Curator: Judy Annear, Senior curator of photographs, AGNSW “Cultural theorist Ross Gibson has written that ‘being Australian might actually mean being...
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Exhibition: ‘Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840 – 1860′ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 7th June 2015 Curators: Carol Jacobi, Curator, British Art 1850-1915, Tate Britain, Simon Baker, Curator, Photography and International Art, Tate, and Hannah Lyons,...
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Exhibition: ‘Nature/Revelation’ at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 31st March 2015 – 5th July 2015 Curator: Joanna Bosse This is a fascinating exhibition at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, one of the best exhibitions I have seen this year in...
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Exhibition: ‘Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals’ at the Peabody...
Exhibition dates: 7th March – 21st June 2015 I couldn’t resist. Another posting on the work of this extraordinary artist. I particularly like The Bewitched Bee (1986) and Who is Sidney Sherman?,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Segregation Story’ at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Exhibition dates: 15th November 2014 – 21st June 2015 The more I see of this man’s work, the more I admire it. A sense of history, truth and injustice; a sense of beauty, colour and...
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Postcards: This is a real photograph
June 2015 A selection of black and white postcards that I recently purchased in a secondhand shop. It was fun investigating the publishers and places, especially as three of them contain my surname...
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Exhibition: ‘Modernités. Photographie brésilienne (1940-1964)’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 26th July 2015 Curators: Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Ludger Derenthal and Samuel Titan Jr. Another exhibition on an unusual subject that this website likes supporting: this...
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Exhibition: ‘Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars’ at the Oklahoma City Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 20th June – 27th September 2015 Even after nearly six years of making this website, I still get a thrill bringing you the next posting. And what a posting it is. Even as their...
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Review: ‘Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection’ at...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 5th July 2015 Curator: Helen Carroll Gorgeous catalogue with luscious plates, insightful text by Bill Henson (below) and evocative poetry by John Kinsella. Stars on...
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Exhibition: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980′ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th March – 19th July 2015 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor Dynamic. Evocative. Essential. Surreal. Modern. Beautiful. Intelligent. Futuristic....
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Exhibition: ‘In Light of the Past’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition dates: 3rd May – 26th July 2015 Curators: The curators of In Light of the Past: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and...
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