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Exhibition: ‘Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Amanda Maddox, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum. This is a compelling body of work from...
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Exhibition: ‘The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Amanda Maddox, assistant curator in the Museum’s Department of Photographs I’ll leave you to make up your own mind about these works...
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Review: ‘On the beach’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 28th February 2016 Curator: Wendy Garden This is another solid thematic group exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (curator Wendy...
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Exhibition: ‘1932: Rare Photographs by George Grosz’ at the Akim Monet Side...
Exhibition dates: 15th January – 19th March 2016 While the photographs of the bridge, rigging and pastimes aboard the twin-screw turbine steamer New York are the most avant-garde and successful (in...
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Exhibition: ‘Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs,...
Exhibition dates: 18th September 2015 – 13th March 2016 THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE POSTINGS ABOUT (MAINLY AMERICAN) 19th CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY. This monster posting is both fascinating and gruesome...
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Photography: Alexander Gardner: ‘Memories of the War. Illustrations of the...
23-24 May, 1865 Location Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. Participants George Gordon Meade Army of the Potomac William T. Sherman Army of the Tennessee Army of Georgia In this, the...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Daguerreotypes’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty...
Exhibition dates: 3rd November 2015 – 20th March 2016 The last in my trilogy of postings on 19th century photography features a rather uninspiring collection of daguerreotypes. Perhaps there were...
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Exhibition: ‘Photo-Poetics: An Anthology’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Exhibition dates: 20th November 2015 – 23rd March 2016 My apologies, I am feeling very poorly at the moment, so just a small comment on this exhibition. After the trilogy of 19th century photography,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George: The Art Exhibition’ at the Museum of Old and...
Exhibition dates: 28 November 2015 – 28 March 2016 Gentlemen of the gutter While I admire the mythology of Gilbert and George, that ever so British pair of deviant artists, they have never been among...
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Exhibition: ‘Cosa Mentale: Art and Telepathy in the 20th century’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 28th October 2015 – 28th March 2016 Telepathic art in the 20th century. What a fascinating subject for a spiritual, phantasmagoric exhibition which explores artists’ fascination...
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Review: ‘Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan’ at the Castlemaine Art Gallery and...
Exhibition dates: 15th January – 15th April 2016 This is the most profound exhibition that I have seen so far this year. Simply put, the exhibition is magnificent … a must see for any human being...
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Exhibition: ‘The world is beautiful: photographs from the collection’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 4th December 2015 – 10th April 2016 Despite a focus on the camera’s relationship to the beauty and pure form of the modern world – “the attraction and charm of the surface” – these...
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Exhibition: ‘1932: Rare Photographs by George Grosz’ at the Akim Monet Side...
Exhibition dates: 15th January – 19th March 2016 While the photographs of the bridge, rigging and pastimes aboard the twin-screw turbine steamer New York are the most avant-garde and successful (in...
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Exhibition: ‘Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs,...
Exhibition dates: 18th September 2015 – 13th March 2016 THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE POSTINGS ABOUT (MAINLY AMERICAN) 19th CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY. This monster posting is both fascinating and gruesome...
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Exhibitions: ‘Werner Bischof: Point of View’ and ‘Helvetica’ at the Musée de...
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 1st May 2016 Curators: Marco Bischof, Werner Bischof Estate, for the exhibition Point of View and Daniel Girardin, Musée de l’Elysée, for the exhibition Helvetica....
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Carte de visite: William Bardwell, photographer – Alfred William Howitt,...
April 2016 Caution: Art Blart advises that the subject of this posting may include images and names of deceased people that may cause distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This...
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Review: ‘Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
In their artExhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 24th April 2016 In collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Time lapse This mega-exhibition has been a popular success for the...
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Exhibition: ‘Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Photography in Japan...
Exhibition dates: 29th January – 8th May 2016 I absolutely love Japanese photography from this period. Subjective photographs with a gutsy pictorial language: rough, grainy, and blurred intimations...
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Exhibition: ‘Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind’ at SCA Galleries, Sydney...
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 7th May 2016 Taken as a whole, the artist Roger Ballen’s body of work is exceptionally strong. From his early documentary series Dorps (1986) and Platteland (1996)...
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In memory: ‘Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1891’
28th April 2016 In memory of all those that lost their lives 20 years ago today at Port Arthur, Tasmania. This albumen photograph of Port Arthur, Tasmania was taken in 1891 by an unknown...
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