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Exhibition: ‘Juergen Teller: Woo!’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
23rd January – 17th March 2013 . When the wall text introduction to an exhibition boldly states in the very first sentence, “Juergen Teller is one of the most important photographers of our time,” you...
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Exhibition: ‘Thomas Demand’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Sitting here in my non-airconditioned flat trying to survive Melbourne’s autumn heatwave is no fun; my mind has turned to mush. So instead of...
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Exhibition: ‘Catherine Opie’ at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Exhibition dates: 23rd February – 29th March 2013 . In a nutshell: good presentation, good idea – just needs really good pictures. In fact the presentation is too good for the pictures, so in the end...
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Review: ‘Shrouds’ by Mike Reid at the Colour Factory Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 8th March – 30th March 2013 . “Any discovery changing the nature, or the destination of an object or phenomenon constitutes a Surrealist achievement. Already the automats are...
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Exhibition: ‘Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the...
Exhibition dates: 22nd December 2012 – 7th April 2013 . Many thankx to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’ at the Victoria and...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2012 – 7th April 2013 From the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum . A massive posting on a fascinating subject. I...
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Video: ‘InsideArt – Marcus Bunyan’ talks about the exhibition ‘Confounding:...
Published on 11th March 2013 . This week on InsideArt TV, Michel Lawrence talks with Dr Marcus Bunyan about the NGV’s intriguing photographic exhibition, ‘Confounding’, where the photographs exhibited...
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Review: ‘Aliza Levi / Books on a White Background’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 10th April – 4th May 2013 . Aura of white Shadow of black Books for the boys * Black bodies out the back . . . * Books for the bourgeois * Books for the parlour * Books for the...
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Exhibition: ‘Concrete – Photography and Architecture’ at Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th May 2013 . When creating this blog, so much of my time is spent cleaning up clearly inadequate media images, an example of which can be seen below. I have become very...
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Exhibition: ‘Yang Fudong: “Estranged Paradise. Works 1993 – 2013″‘ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th April – 26th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Kunsthalle Zürich for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Review: ‘Lee Grant / Belco Pride’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 22nd June 2013 . In Belco Pride, the photographer Lee Grant comes as close as you are ever likely to come to an Australian version of the American photographer Alec Soth...
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Review: ‘Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective’ published by Cosgrove Editions, 2013
Published by Cosgrove Editions, Johsel Namkung • A Retrospective is a collection of one hundred exquisite images selected from a remarkable career in photography spanning six decades. . . “I like to...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George – London Pictures’ at MKM Museum Küppersmühle...
Exhibition dates: 20th March 20 – 30th June 2013 . I used to think that Gilbert & George’s work was inventive and relevant, that it had something important to say about contemporary culture. These...
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Exhibition: ‘The Naked Man’ at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2013 . Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Troy Ruffels: Cinder’ at James Makin Gallery, Collingwood,...
Exhibition dates: 13th June 13 – 6th July 2013 . This scratching away at reality. Abstractness of becoming. . Tension. Music. Light. Undertow. A current below the surface of the sea moving in the...
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Exhibition: ‘Petrina Hicks: Selected Photographs, 2013′ at Helen Gory...
Exhibition dates: 12t June – 6th July 2013 . “They’re thoughtful pictures that arouse curiosity rather than desire.” . Robert Nelson . . A stunning, eloquent and conceptually complex exhibition buy...
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Review: Polixeni Papapetrou ‘A Performative Paradox’ and Daniel von Sturmer...
Exhibition dates: 24th May – 14th July 2013 . Two solid if not overly memorable exhibitions are presented at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Polixeni Papapetrou A Performative Paradox is a bit...
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Review: ‘Anne Ferran: Box of Birds’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 26th June – 27th July 2013 . tar·ant·ism [tar-uhn-tiz-uhm] noun a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to...
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Openings: ‘John Cato Retrospective’ / Erika Diettes ‘Sudarios (Shrouds)’ at...
Opening date: 17th August 2013 BiFB dates: 17th August – 15th September 2013 Venue: The Mining Exchange, 12 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat Opening hours: 9am – 5pm daily . . I have the great honour of...
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Review: ‘As far as I know’ by Katrin Koenning and Jessie Boylan at The Colour...
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 27th July 2013 . “…the work itself – which describes various traces of industry and built history amid the expanses of rural and outback Australia – is of a much subtler...
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