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Exhibition: ‘French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray’...
Exhibition dates: 29th June – 15th September 2013 . C’est Magnifique! . Many thankx to the Delaware Art Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘Density’ by Andrew Follows at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond
Exhibition dates: 27th August – 21st September 2013 . Only 2 days to go before the ending of Andrew Follows exhibition Density at ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, 7 Albert Street Richmond which I curated. You...
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Review: ‘Carol Jerrems: photographic artist’ at the Monash Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 6th July – 30th September 2013 A National Gallery of Australia exhibition *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF FEMALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK,...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Ed Ruscha’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 9th April – 29th September 2013 . “Yes, there’s a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it’s...
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Exhibition: ‘The Gender Show’ at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Exhibition dates: 15th June – 13th October 2013 . I am so sick of museums and art galleries not allowing me to publish photographs that I collect freely available elsewhere on the web to illustrate...
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‘The War at Home: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information...
Kodachrome sheets 1941 – 1943 . This is the first of a two-part posting on the large format Kodachrome colour transparency photographs of the American photographer Alfred Palmer taken during 1941-43. I...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . You saw it here first on Art Blart! What a gorgeous exhibition. It’s about time Melbourne had a bit of style put back into the National Gallery of...
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Exhibition: ‘Flowers & Mushrooms’ at the Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg,...
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 27th October 2013 . Many thankx to the Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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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: ‘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: ‘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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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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