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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleReview: ‘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...
View ArticleReview: ‘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...
View ArticleExhibition 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...
View ArticleReview: ‘Hoda Afshar / Under Western Eyes’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 3rd May 2014 Dear readers, my apologies for the lack of local reviews and postings since the beginning of the year. It’s not that I haven’t been out and about looking at...
View ArticleText / review: ‘A Vocabulary of Printing and the Syntax of the Image’ from...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 3rd May 2014 Artists: Jane Brown, Ponch Hawkes, Siri Hayes, Ruth Maddison, Lloyd Stubber, David Tatnall, Claudia Terstappen Curated By Linsey Gosper A Vocabulary of...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Paper’ by Rosemary Laing at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th April 2014 – 3rd May 2014 I always look forward to new work by the incomparable Rosemary Laing with great anticipation. I have never been disappointed. This magnificent group of...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 31st January – 4th May 2014 Artist in the exhibition include: Matthew Brandt b. 1982, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles. Marco Breuer b. 1966, Landshut, Germany; lives and...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 24th January – 14th May 2014 A busy time with postings on the blog over the next week with a lot of exhibitions finishing on the 18th May 2014. The posting about this artist is one...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘A Way of Life – Swedish Photography from Christer Strömholm...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 18th May 2014 Curator: Anna Tellgren, curator of photography, Moderna Museet. Another posting on an eclectic subject that this blog likes to promote, this time on...
View ArticleText / exhibition: ‘Australian vernacular photography’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 18th May 2014 Australian vernacular photography. Such a large subject. Such a small exhibition. With only 27 photographs from various artists (18 of which are shown...
View ArticleReview: ‘Standing Stone’ by Catherine Evans at BLINDSIDE, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 30th April – 17th May 2014 I like this exhibition, I like it a lot. The premise, spelt out in the intelligent and articulate catalogue essay by Laura Skerlj (below), is the holistic...
View ArticleFilm: ‘Traveller Homes, a film about Dave Fawcett’
Traveller Homes, a film about David Fawcett from PARC_UAL on Vimeo. Traveller Homes, a film about Dave Fawcett made by Tom Hunter and Robin Christian in France in 2013. “Sadly a large part of...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Apartheid and After’ at Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography,...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 8th June 2014 Artists: David Goldblatt met Paul Alberts, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Jo Ractliffe, Michael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Graeme...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Feuerbach’s Muses – Lagerfeld’s Models’ at Hamburger Kunsthalle,...
Exhibition dates: 21st February - 15th June 2014 Gallery of Contemporary Art Don’t give up your day job . From the sublime (Feuerbach) to the downright awful (Lagerfeld). From gorgeous, sensitive...
View ArticleExhibition and videos: ‘Richard Mosse: The Enclave’– winner of Deutsche Börse...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 22nd June 2014 Men are bastards. War is bastardry. Bastardry: the unpleasant behaviour of a bastard (objectionable person). “Beauty is effective, the sharpest tool...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa’ at...
Exhibition dates: 21st February - 29th June 2014 Exhibition artists Public Intimacy presents Photography by Ian Berry, Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy...
View ArticleReview: ‘Concrete’ at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 3rd May – 5th July 2014 Artists: Laurence Aberhart (NZ), Jananne al-Ani (IRQ/UK), Kader Attia (DEU/DZA), Saskia Doherty (AUS), Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni (FRA), Igor Grubić...
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