Exhibition: ‘The Time Between: The Sequences of Minor White’ at the Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 20th October 2015 – 31st January 2016 This is such as disappointing posting… not for the quality of the work, which is exceptional, but for the lack of it. I have been waiting for...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Art Nouveau. The Great Utopia’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 17th October 2015 – 7th February 2016 Among the artists exhibited are: Emile Bernard, Edward Burne-Jones, Peter Behrens, Carlo Bugatti, Mariano For-tuny, Loïe Fuller, Emile Gallé,...
View ArticlePhotographs: ‘Andrew Follows: Carmania’
February 2016 Australian vernacular Hats off to my photographer friend Andrew Follows for a stunning set of Australian automobile photographs. These photographs, taken during daylight at the BP...
View ArticleText: ‘The multiple singularities of photography’ / Exhibition: ‘Every...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The multiple singularities of photography Photograph, photographer, negative, print . I have never thought of photography as a “singularity” –...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleReview: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticlePhotography: 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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleReview: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibitions: ‘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....
View ArticleCarte 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...
View ArticleReview: ‘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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