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View ArticleEuropean art research tour exhibition: ‘Alberto Giacometti’ at the Trade Fair...
Exhibition dates: 18th July – 1st December 2019, posted December 2020 Curators: Julia Tatiana Bailey (NGP), Catherine Grenier (Fondation Giacometti), Serena Bucalo-Mussely (Fondation Giacometti)...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Unearthed: Photography’s Roots’ at the Dulwich Picture Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 8th December 2020 – 9th May 2021 Curator: Alexander Moore The exhibition will include work by the following 41 artists (in alphabetical order): Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna Atkins, Alois...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Max Beckmann: feminine-masculine’ at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 25th September 2020 – 24th January 2021 Curator: Dr Karin Schick Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950) Frühe Menschen – Urlandschaft Early humans – primeval landscape 1939 (revised...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th October 2020 – 31st January 2021 Curator: Dr Patricia Berman Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) Self-Portrait in Åsgårdstrand 1904 Silver gelatin contact print The...
View ArticlePhotographs: Walker Evans. ‘Subway portraits 1938-41’
January 2021 Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975) Subway portrait 1938-1941 Gelatin silver print © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public domain Unguarded moments “Tell those...
View ArticlePhotographs: ‘Women’ 1960s Australian 35mm colour slides Part 1
January 2021 Unknown photographer (Australian?) Nude portrait (1) 1960s? 35mm colour slide Before lockdown struck Melbourne I travelled up to Daylesford (an hour and a half from the city) and...
View ArticleReview: ‘DESTINY’ at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 23rd November 2020 – 14th February 2021 Installation view of DESTINY at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 2020 Photo: Tom Ross “There is no excuse for...
View ArticlePhotographs: Marcus Bunyan. ‘Stones, Vaults, Flowers: Père Lachaise’ 2017-2020
February 2021 les jeunes ñ’oublient pas souvenir et jeunesse young people don’t forget memory and youth A body of work from Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Unfortunately, I can’t display the...
View ArticleExhibition: Gordon Parks and “The Atmosphere of Crime” at the Museum of...
Collection 1940s-1970s, Room 409 From ‘New art from wall to wall’ ongoing Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006) Shooting Victim in Cook County Morgue, Chicago, Illinois 1957 Pigmented inkjet print,...
View ArticlePhotographs: ‘Women’ 1960s British / Australian 35mm colour slides Part 2
February 2021 Unknown photographer (British? Australian?) Nude portrait 1960s? 35mm colour slide This is the second part of my posting on 88 colour slides of nude women that I bought in...
View ArticleMarcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Orphans and small groups’ 1994-96 Part 1
February 2021 Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) Tall Bamboo 1994-1996 Gelatin silver print I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991-1997 to preserve them in the form of an online...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Dawoud Bey: An American Project’ at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Exhibition dates: 7th November 2020 – 14th March 2021 Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) A Man in a Bowler Hat, Harlem, NY, 1976 1976 Gelatin silver print © Dawoud Bey Early in his career, Bey...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Gary Krueger’s City of Angels, 1971-1980’ at the Joseph Bellows...
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 19th March, 2021 Gary Krueger (American, b. 1945) Los Angeles, 1975 1975 8 x 10 inches Vintage gelatin silver print Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘From Becher to Blume – Photographs from the Garnatz Collection...
Exhibition dates: 12th March until 8th August 2021 Artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Chargesheimer, Jim Dine, Frank Dömer, Gina Lee Felber, Candida Höfer, Benjamin...
View ArticleText / Exhibition: ‘Clarice Beckett: The present moment’ at the Art Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 27th February – 16th May 2021 Clarice Beckett (Australia, 1887-1935) Solitude c. 1932 Melbourne Oil on board Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of...
View ArticleMarcus Bunyan black and white archive: ‘Orphans and small groups’ 1994-96 Part 2
April 2021 Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958) Ma mère 1994 Gelatin silver print Earlier in my life I believed that identity was always fluid, always in flux. These photographs reflect that...
View ArticleReview: ‘Ruth Maddison: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 18th April 2021 Ruth Maddison (Australian, b. 1945) Equal pay demo, Bourke Street Melbourne 1985 Pigment print from scanned negative 39 x 58cm (image size)...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Faces. The Power of the Human Visage’ at the Albertina, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 20th June 2021 Artists: Gertrud Arndt, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Irene Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Max Burchartz, Suse Byk, Paul Citroen, Carl Theodor Dreyer,...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Photography Is Art’ at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art,...
Exhibition dates: 18th April – 8th August 2021 Timothy H. O’Sullivan (American, 1840-1882) Entrance to Black Cañon, Colorado River, from Above 1871 Albumen silver print Amon Carter Museum of...
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