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Exhibition: ‘When we share more than ever’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 20th September 2015 A project for the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015 Curators: Dr des. Esther Ruelfs and Teresa Gruber Invited artists: Laia Abril, Ai Weiwei,...
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Exhibition: ‘Storm in a Teacup’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 27th September 2015 This is the best thematic group exhibition I have seen in Melbourne and surrounds this year. Every piece in the exhibition is visually stimulating...
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Exhibition: ‘Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 27th September 2015 The Sackler Wing of Galleries Now, Voyager . “The untold want by life and land ne’er granted, Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” Walt...
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Exhibition: ‘Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 30th September 2015 There has always been a history of hand colouring in photography since its very early days – from daguerreotypes, through ambrotypes, cartes de...
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Exhibition: ‘From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola’...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 4th October 2015 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor The work of Greta Stern is the better known of these two artists (Ringl + Pit studio and the...
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Exhibition: ‘Victorian London in Photographs 1839 to 1901’ at the London...
Exhibition dates: 5th May – 29th October 2015 This is a fascinating exhibition about the history of London portrayed through Victorian era photographs. The best photographs in the posting are by John...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Animalia’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 26th May – 18th October 2015 Some of the photographs in this postings are sad, others are just gruesome. One animal’s in/humanity to many others. Marcus . Many thankx to the J. Paul...
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Exhibition: ‘Karl Blossfeldt. From Nature’s Studio’ at Pinakothek der...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 25th October 2015 Curator: Simone Förster Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs have been associated with Modernism (Bauhaus), Surrealism and New Objectivity / New Vision....
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Text / exhibition: ‘David Bowie is’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving...
Exhibition dates: 16th July – 1st November 2015 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces This text was written for a special LGBTQI themed edition of the peer reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday night, especially to see this exhibition on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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Exhibition: ‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World’ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 25th October 2015 Linbury Galleries A national treasure. An old soul. My favourite period of Hepworth’s is the 1940s-1950s, when she found her true voice as an artist....
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Text / Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss The road less travelled It was a flying visit to Sydney to see the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Art Gallery of...
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Exhibition: ‘Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World’ at...
Exhibition dates: 28th July – 1st November 2015 Curated by Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, both of the J. Paul Getty Museum The fascination continues. All these centuries later. Marcus . Many...
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Exhibition: ‘Herb Ritts’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 8th November, 2015 Another artist lost too soon to HIV/AIDS. At least we have these fine classics to remember him by. The portrait of Nelson Mandela is especially...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography – A Victorian Sensation’ at the National Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 22nd November 2015 In our contemporary image-saturated, comprehensively mediated way of life it is difficult for us to understand how “sensational” photography would...
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Exhibition: ‘David Moore: Glimpses of Chewton’ and other art at the...
Exhibition dates: 31 October – 31 December 2015 The State of Victoria has some truly wonderful regional galleries. I hadn’t been to Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum for a few years and I...
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Review: ‘William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize’ at the Monash...
Exhibition dates: 25 September 2015 – 22 November 2015 Reality, passing In terms of the professional quality of work, the pristine printing and framing, and the “less is more” nature of the hang,...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greats: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 I was lucky enough to be up in Sydney to review the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales… and the media...
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greats: masterpieces from the National Galleries of...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The second part of this monster two-part posting. Highlights include the delicacy and strength of the William Blake, the stunning beauty of...
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