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Exhibition: ‘Wayne Gudmundson: Trees of Burgundy’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 7th November – 23rd December 2015 There is a Cartier Bresson of a group of roadside trees that makes a heart. There is the photography of Wim Wenders in “Kings of the Road.” There...
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Exhibition: ‘Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel’ at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 5th September 2015 – 6th December 2015 Curator: Anna Tellgren Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) achieved more in five years of artistic creativity than many artists achieve in a...
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Exhibition: ‘Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th September – 20th December 2015 Following on from the magnificent Francesca Woodman, here we have an artist from a previous period who investigates aspects of alienation,...
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Exhibition: ‘Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei’ at the National Gallery of Victoria,...
Exhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 24th April 2016 A monster posting of installation images of the exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei at the National Gallery of Victoria, in chronological...
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Exhibition: ‘The Aftermath of Conflict: Jo Ractliffe’s Photographs of Angola...
Exhibition dates: 24th August 2015 – 3rd January 2016 The photograph as unoccupied land To be frank, I am not enamoured of these photographs. They seem to be conceptual ideas masquerading as...
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Exhibition: ‘Art AIDS America’ at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Exhibition dates: 3rd October 2015 – 10th January 2016 This is the biggest exhibition on art relating to HIV/AIDS since the seminal exhibition Art in the Age of AIDS at the National Gallery of...
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Season’s Greetings 2015
Season’s Greetings from Art Blart – seven years of writing on the arts. LIKE ART BLART ON FACEBOOK Back to topFiled under: Art Blart, Australian writing, Marcus Bunyan, Melbourne, photography...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: England, 1993
I finally got around to scanning some more of my black and white archive, this time from a trip to England in 1993. Beautiful, poignant and funny (with people wearing the solidarity with people...
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Exhibitions: ‘Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008’ and...
Exhibition dates: 20th November 2015 – 13th March 2016 Curator of Coney Island exhibition: Dr Robin Jaffee Frank The first posting of 2016, and it is a doozy – a multimedia extravaganza of sight...
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Exhibition: ‘Goya: The Portraits’ at the National Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2015 – 10th January 2016 Sainsbury Wing Curator: Dr Xavier Bray Rushing through a dimly lit gallery I remember stumbling upon my first, larger than life, full length...
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Vale David Bowie
11th January 2016 I am so sad, just devastated. Bowie was my hero, I grew up with his music and his creations. Such style, such panache and that voice. Such a cultural icon who influenced so many...
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Exhibition: ‘New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic,...
Exhibition dates: 4th October 2015 – 18th January 2016 If I had to nominate one period of art that is my favourite, it would be European avant-garde art between 1919 – 1939. The sense of renewed...
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Photograph: Werner Mantz. ‘Bridge’ 1929
17th January 2016 A single image posting, which is a rarity on Art Blart … just because the image is so fab. This is a brilliant image – the same year as Weston’s first Point Lobos images. Click on...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Exhibition dates: 28th November 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs at the V&A Another exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret...
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Exhibition: ‘The Time Between: The Sequences of Minor White’ at the Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 20th October 2015 – 31st January 2016 This is such as disappointing posting… not for the quality of the work, which is exceptional, but for the lack of it. I have been waiting for...
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Exhibition: ‘Art Nouveau. The Great Utopia’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 17th October 2015 – 7th February 2016 Among the artists exhibited are: Emile Bernard, Edward Burne-Jones, Peter Behrens, Carlo Bugatti, Mariano For-tuny, Loïe Fuller, Emile Gallé,...
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Photographs: ‘Andrew Follows: Carmania’
February 2016 Australian vernacular Hats off to my photographer friend Andrew Follows for a stunning set of Australian automobile photographs. These photographs, taken during daylight at the BP...
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Text: ‘The multiple singularities of photography’ / Exhibition: ‘Every...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The multiple singularities of photography Photograph, photographer, negative, print . I have never thought of photography as a “singularity” –...
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Review: ‘Trent Parke: The camera is god’ at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 26th November 2015 – 21st February 2016 Ghost in the machine This is a disappointing first solo exhibition in Victoria by internationally renowned Australian photojournalist Trent...
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Exhibition: ‘Cutting edge: 21st-century photography’ at the Monash Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 26th November 2015 – 21st February 2016 Artists: Danica Chappell, Peta Clancy, Eliza Hutchison, Megan Jenkinson, Justine Khamara, Paul Knight, Derek Kreckler, Luke Parker, Emidio...
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