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Exhibition: ‘Tattooed New York’ at the New-York Historical Society, New York
Exhibition dates: 3rd February – 30th April 2017 Curator: Cristian Petru Panaite, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society The first of two postings on the history of...
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Exhibition: ‘The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 29th October 2016 – 7th May 2017 Photography is … a language for asking questions about the world. The Shape of Things imbues this aphorism with a linear taxonomy in its written...
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Exhibition: ‘Peter Hujar: Speed of Life’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 30th April 2017 Curator: Joel Smith, “Richard L. Menschel Curator” and Director of the Department of Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum Peter Hujar: Speed...
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Exhibition: ‘The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John...
Exhibition dates: 10 November 2016 – 7 May 2017 Many thankx to Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘The Unsettled Lens’ at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Exhibition dates: 18th February – 14th May 2017 Not a great selection of media images… I would have liked to have seen more photographs from what is an interesting premise for an exhibition: the idea...
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Exhibition: ‘Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia’...
Exhibition dates: 11th February – 21st May 2017 Curator: Dr Steven Tonkin Just a quick comment on this exhibition as I’m not feeling very well with my ongoing hand issues. This is one of the best...
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Exhibition: ‘Tom Goldner: Passage’ at The Fox Darkroom & Gallery, Kensington,...
Exhibition dates: 5th May – 21st May, 2017 Tom Goldner Valley 2015-16 Silver gelatin print It is such a pleasure to be able to walk into a gallery – in this case, one located in the recently...
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Exhibition: ‘Monet’ at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 28th May 2017 Underlying these “impressions” of light, shadow and reflection is structure. Perceiving the spaces in between things as things… means that you need to...
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Exhibition: ‘Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask’...
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 29th May 2017 This is the last posting for a while as my hand operation is tomorrow… so let’s make the most of the occasion! “…the life of spirit is not the life that...
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Exhibition: ‘The Original Gus Wagner: The Maritime Roots of Modern Tattoo’ at...
Exhibition dates: 29th January – 4th June 2017 Curators: Alan Govenar, with Martina Caruso, Collections Manager and Registrar, and Michelle Kennedy, Collections Assistant at the Seaport Museum THIS...
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Exhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017’ at Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 15th February – 11th June 2017 Wolfgang Tillmans (German, born 1968) The State We’re In, A (Room 14) 2015 Ink-jet print Dimensions variable © Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang...
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Exhibition: ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 18th June 2017 László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) F in Field 1920 Gouache and collage on paper 8 11/16 × 6 15/16 in. Private collection, courtesy of Kunsthandel...
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Exhibition: ‘Acting for the Camera’ at the Albertina, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 10th March – 5th June 2017 Featured artists (selection): Ottomar Anschütz | Bill Brandt | Brassaï | Günter Brus | John Coplans | Hugo Erfurth | Trude Fleischmann | Seiichi Furuya |...
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Review: ‘Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy’ at Monash University Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 27th April – 8th July 2017 This project has been supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria PLEASE NOTE: I am still recovering from my hand operation which is...
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Exhibition: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern’ at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 23rd July 2017 Hilda Belcher (American 1881-1963) The Checkered Dress (Young Georgia O’Keeffe) 1907 Oil on canvas Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946) Georgia...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Centennial’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 24th April – 30th July 2017 Part 1 of this bumper posting, with some biographical information on the lesser known sitters. More to follow ~ Marcus The most comprehensive...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Centennial’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 24th April – 30th July 2017 Irving Penn. The high priest of high modernist photography. I know a lot of people adore his photography but I am not an acolyte, quietly accepting...
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Exhibition: ‘Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition’ as part of the NGV Festival...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 30th July 2017 Individual art works from the NGV collection (in artist alphabetical order) appearing in Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition at NGV Australia ” … from...
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Review: ‘Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition’ as part of the NGV Festival of...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 30th July 2017 Photographs are in the chronological room order of the exhibition. Entrance Patrick Pound (New Zealander/Australian 1962- ) The entrants (detail)...
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Exhibition: ‘Sit. Pose. Snap. Brisbane Portrait Photography 1850 – 1950’ at...
Exhibition dates: 24th March – 30th July 2017 Poul C Poulsen Bushman with a swag c. 1885 Cabinet photograph Poul C Poulsen Bushman with a swag (detail) c. 1885 Cabinet photograph This...
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