Tag: Australia
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Antipodean Springtime: Letter from Australia
September-October in Australia was intended to be entirely for family reasons and I made an effort to avoid work and therefore exhibitions. Impossible. As my book Contemporary Australian Drawing, (Metasenta/Macmillan) had just been launched in Melbourne, in June, regrettably in…
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Gordon Bennett: Home D
Milani Gallery, Brisbane 3–25 December 2010
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Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture
The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert communities in the 1970s and 1980s reveals a series of ironies, which enable contemporary indigenous art in Australia to be better understood. The works themselves are superb, as…
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Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
National Museum of Australia, Canberra 22 August-12 October 2008
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Book review: The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History
Bernard Smith Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2007 According to the Australian art historian Bernard Smith, The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History, is ‘probably his last book’. At 91, he is probably right. What is certain is…
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Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and readings of the land have a weighty and protracted precedence but in the 1970s, far-reaching revisions were explored by artists. These have generated a powerful…
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Simply Artful, Simply Functional, Simply Droog
Museum of Arts and Design, New York Simply Droog: 10+3 years of Creating Innovation and Discussion 21 September 2006-14 January 2007
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Aalto Gathering in Finland
An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…
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The Gao Xingjian Experience: A Personal Journey to the Infinite
Singapore Art Museum 17 November 2005-7 February 2006
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The Art of Ken Done
Janet McKenzie, Sydney: Craftsman House, AU$100/ US$60/GB£50
