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Exhibition: ‘Party’ by Anne MacDonald at Bett Gallery, Hobart
Exhibition dates: 11th October – 1st November 2013 . Children’s birthday parties as symbols of loss and impermanence. In these wonderful photographs there is a sense of sadness and perhaps even...
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Text: ‘Transgressive Topographies, Subversive Photographies, Cultural...
. Upsetting the court of public opinion… A very interesting article, Covering their arts by John Elder (October 13, 2013 ), examines the controversy over Bill Henson’s images of children sparked an age...
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‘The War at Home: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information...
Kodachrome sheets 1941 – 1943 . This is the second of a two-part posting on the large format Kodachrome colour transparency photographs of the American photographer Alfred Palmer taken during 1941-43....
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Exhibition: ‘Guest Relations’ by Robyn Stacey at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 9th October – 9th November 2013 . X marks the spot Somehow these photographs just don’t work for me. Intellectually, I appreciate the Inception-esque concept but visually and...
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Exhibition: ‘Winogrand’s Women Are Beautiful’ at the Worcester Art Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 10th August – 10th November 2013 . As people may know, I am not a great fan of the photography of Garry Winogrand. Wile other people rave over this “master” of street snapshot...
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Exhibition: ‘Lee Friedlander – America by Car’ at Foam, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 13th September – 11th December 2013 . “I’m not trying to do something to you, I’m trying to do something with you.” . American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett at a concert in...
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Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection at Historic New England,...
Historic New England . I had never heard of this photographer before, but it is such a joy that these photographs have been digitised and are now available online. How gloriously elegant these yachts...
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Text: “The Book of Memory” extract from Paul Auster’s ‘The Invention of...
. “The Book of Memory. Book Four. Several blank pages. To be followed by profuse illustrations. Old family photographs, for each person his own family, going back as many generations as possible. To...
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Three exhibitions: ‘Henri van Noordenburg / Efface’; ‘Amber McCaig / Imagined...
Exhibition dates: 6th – 23rd November 2013 . Three solid exhibitions at Edmund Pearce Gallery. All three have interesting elements and strong images. All three have their positives and negatives. ....
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Exhibition: ‘Nude in Public: Sascha Schneider, Homoeroticism and the Male...
Exhibition dates: 20th September – 8th December 2013 . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* Many thankx to...
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Exhibition: ‘Manuel Álvarez Bravo’ at The Wittliff Collections, Texas State...
Exhibition dates: 1st August – 1st December 2013 . This photographer will always be in my top ten photographers of all time. His lyricism and sensitivity to subject matter and narrative is up there...
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Exhibition: ‘Melbourne Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November 2013 – 23rd March 2014 . This is the first of a two-part posting on the huge Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The photographs in...
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Vale Saul Leiter: the world will be less colour-full, less abstract, less...
. “Seeing is a neglected enterprise,” Mr. Leiter often said . “I am not immersed in self-admiration,” he said. “When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning...
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Exhibition: ‘Melbourne Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November – 23rd March 2014 . This is the second of a two-part posting on the huge Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The photographs in this...
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Essay: ‘Made ready: A Philosophy of Moments’ Dr Marcus Bunyan / Exhibition:...
Exhibition dates: 3rd October – 14th December 2013 Presented by Monash University Museum of Art in association with Melbourne Festival . Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) is generating an enviable...
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Exhibition: ‘Detroit 1968: Photographs by Enrico Natali’ at Joseph Bellows...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November – 21st December 2013 . It takes about five or six photographs. Then, in a light bulb moment, you realise what the artist is doing and how good these images really are....
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Exhibition: ‘Detroit 1968: Photographs by Enrico Natali’ at Joseph Bellows...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November – 21st December 2013 . The second tranche of images from the artist Enrico Natali demonstrate his command of visual space. Groups of people face away from the camera,...
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Exhibition: ‘Masculine / Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the...
Exhibition dates: 24th September 2013 – 2nd January 2014 . The von Gloeden is stunning and some of the paintings are glorious: the muscularity / blood red colour in Falguière by Lutteurs d’Alexandre...
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Season’s Greetings from the Art Blart blog 2013
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Exhibition: ‘Color! American Photography Transformed’ at the Amon Carter...
Exhibition dates: 5th October 2013 – 5th January, 2014 . A very big subject to cover in one exhibition. . Many thankx to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art for allowing me to publish the...
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