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Exhibition: ‘Louise Lawler. Adjusted’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 11th October 2013 – 26th January 2014 . . Complex and polyglot, conceptual and analytical, but simultaneously ironically light, elegiac, and unfathomable. Abstract, non-evaluative,...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria
Date: 23rd January 2014 . Miserable research experience on the Charles Marville photographs at the State Library of Victoria . I don’t usually get upset but this is an exception, and rightly so. They...
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Exhibition: ‘Golden Years / Rob Hornstra’s Russia (and Oleg Klimov and Olga...
Exhibition dates: 14th December 2013 – 9th March 2014 . A very strange conglomeration of artists in this exhibition. Individually some interesting work, but not sure what the rationale was of putting...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria update
Date: 30th January 2014 . research experience on the charles marville photographs at the state library of victoria update . Dear readers Yah – a lovely response from the State Library of Victoria !! I...
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Exhibition: ‘The Weak Sex – How Art Pictures the New Male’ at Kunstmuseum Bern
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 9th February 2014 . The Cult of Muscularity . “… muscularity is a key term in appraising men’s bodies … this comes from men themselves. Muscularity is the sign of...
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New photographic prize: The Prix Elysée with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier
Applications open: 3rd February 2014 Applications close: 25th April 2014 . . . About the Prix Elysée At the Musée de l’Elysée, we think that supporting photographers in the evolution of their career is...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Architecture’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty...
Exhibition dates: 15th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . Another gem of a photography exhibition from the Getty. These In Focus exhibitions are just a treasure: from Making a Scene, Still Life and The...
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Exhibition: ‘Walker Evans American Photographs’ at The Museum of Modern Art...
Exhibition dates: 19th July 2013 – 9th March 2014 . Picture this. That is what Walker Evans does in his unique, forthright way. He shows you what he is seeing in a very straight forward way – directly,...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria further update
Date: 22nd February 2014 . research experience on the charles marville photographs at the state library of victoria further update . Dear readers An interesting email arrived from the Collection...
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Review: ‘Simon Harsent / Melt: Portrait of an Iceberg’ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 5th February – 1st March 2014 . A solid exhibition by Simon Harsent to open the year at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne. . Things I felt and observed Harsent shows me sculptural...
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Exhibition: ‘Félix Thiollier (1842-1914), photographs’ at the Musée d’Orsay,...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2013 – 10th March 2014 . “Why is the price of justice so high?” . Maheude, Germinal . “Beneath the blazing of the sun, in that morning of new growth, the countryside...
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Exhibition: ‘Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr’...
Exhibition dates: 21st September 2013 – 16th March 2014 . “Be more aware of composition Don’t take boring pictures Get in closer Watch camera shake Don’t shoot too much” . Tony Ray-Jones from his...
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Exhibition: ‘See the Light – Photography, Perception, Cognition: The Marjorie...
Exhibition dates: 27th October 2013 – 23rd March 2014 . It is a real joy to bring these beautiful images to you! Frederick H. Evans A Sea Of Steps – Wells Cathedral (England, 1903, below) is one of my...
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Exhibition preview: ‘Out of the closets, into the streets: gay liberation...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Opening: TBC Nite Art: Wednesday 23rd July until 11pm Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John Englart, Barbara Creed, Ponch...
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Review: ‘Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck’ at Monash Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 30th March 2014 . . Installation photographs of Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck at the Monash Gallery of Art 1/ stygian gloom 2/large grouping of 14 works by...
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Exhibition and book launch preview: ‘THE RENNIE ELLIS SHOW’ and ‘Decadent...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 8th June 2014 Exhibition and book launch: 3-5 pm Saturday 5th April 2014 . I saw a digital preview of the new book Rennie Ellis - Decadent 1980-2000, shown to me by the...
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Exhibition: ‘Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs Of Ansel Adams’ at the Jundt...
Exhibition dates: 4th January – 29th March 2014 . Just a small celebration = this is the 900th posting on Art Blart since it started… . I sifted through all the photographs of the “war relocation...
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Exhibition: ‘Hans Gedda’ at the Nationalmuseum at Konstakademien, Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 5th December 2013 – 30th March 2014 . A photographer who I previously have known very little about…. Excellent portraits, with strong use of close up, chiaroscuro and diagonal,...
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Photographic archive: ‘The Gibson archive’ at the Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG)
. “Other men have taken fine shipwreck photographs, but nowhere else in the world can one family have produced such a consistently high and poetic standard of work.” . John Fowles . “This is the...
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Exhibition and book launch preview: ‘In the Folds of Hills’ by Kristian...
Exhibition dates: 1st – 8th May 2014 Exhibition opening and book launch: Thursday 1st May, 6 – 8.30 pm To be opened by Robert McFarlane Stories by Charlotte Laemmle One of my favourite contemporary...
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