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Exhibition: ‘From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola’...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 4th October 2015 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor The work of Greta Stern is the better known of these two artists (Ringl + Pit studio and the...
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Exhibition: ‘Victorian London in Photographs 1839 to 1901’ at the London...
Exhibition dates: 5th May – 29th October 2015 This is a fascinating exhibition about the history of London portrayed through Victorian era photographs. The best photographs in the posting are by John...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Animalia’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 26th May – 18th October 2015 Some of the photographs in this postings are sad, others are just gruesome. One animal’s in/humanity to many others. Marcus . Many thankx to the J. Paul...
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Exhibition: ‘Karl Blossfeldt. From Nature’s Studio’ at Pinakothek der...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 25th October 2015 Curator: Simone Förster Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs have been associated with Modernism (Bauhaus), Surrealism and New Objectivity / New Vision....
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Text / exhibition: ‘David Bowie is’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving...
Exhibition dates: 16th July – 1st November 2015 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces This text was written for a special LGBTQI themed edition of the peer reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday night, especially to see this exhibition on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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Exhibition: ‘Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World’ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 25th October 2015 Linbury Galleries A national treasure. An old soul. My favourite period of Hepworth’s is the 1940s-1950s, when she found her true voice as an artist....
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Text / Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss The road less travelled It was a flying visit to Sydney to see the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Art Gallery of...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography – A Victorian Sensation’ at the National Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 22nd November 2015 In our contemporary image-saturated, comprehensively mediated way of life it is difficult for us to understand how “sensational” photography would...
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Review: ‘William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize’ at the Monash...
Exhibition dates: 25 September 2015 – 22 November 2015 Reality, passing In terms of the professional quality of work, the pristine printing and framing, and the “less is more” nature of the hang,...
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
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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: ‘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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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: ‘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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