Cézanne to Giacometti: Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationgalerie
The Stülerbau West, the historical part of Museum Berggruen in Berlin, has been undergoing a substantial renovation since autumn 2022. A selection from the Berggruen collection has gone on international tour to Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Beijing, Venice, Paris and now Canberra. Later it will travel to Madrid. It is not unusual for an art collection […]
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Tagged Art, Cezanne, Klee, nga, Sasha Grishin
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Kyra Mancktelow: Gubba Up
In a broadcast given for the 2021 churchie emerging art prize, where she was a Special Commendation winner, Mancktelow reflected on the absence on First Nations histories in her own schooling in this country. Here, she stated that “I’m putting this art in the world for people to view, and see, and have an understanding […]
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Art, ARTIST PROFILE, Kyra Mancktelow, N.Smith Gallery
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Fiona Foley
Fiona Foley is an artist from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation, whose acclaimed arts practice has been widely exhibited across Australia and internationally for over thirty years. Now a distinguished academic at Griffith University, her latest book Biting the Clouds (2020) weaves rigorous research with art to examine legacies of harmful legislation, disrupting […]
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Art, ARTIST PROFILE, Biting the Clouds, Fiona Foley, painting, Premier's Literary Award, Queensland, sculpture
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Art For The Next 50 Years
Writing after the death of Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol declared that ‘people will be discussing new beauty in Beuys as long as there are people.
It’s Not Funny
John McDonald delves into Parkinson’s a condition that is not only debilitating but also still carries a stigma. One which artist Bernie McGrath is upending.
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Jane Gillings @ NG Art, Gallery
Come Closer (Now Go Away) is the latest solo exhibition by Jane Gillings at NG Art Gallery, Sydney. The work that forms this exhibition is the recycling of and engaging with – what some would call – hoarded waste. Gillings compulsively collects and, by her own admission, hoards before she reassembles by way of embracing and engaging […]
JON CATTAPAN @ SUTTON GALLERY
OVER THE LAST thirty years, Jon Cattapan has established a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant and prolific painters. In this new body of works at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Viridian Eye, the artist extends his exploration of ‘Night Visions’ drawn from his experiences as a commissioned artist for the Australian War Memorial in Timor […]
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Tagged Art, Exhibitions, Jon Cattapan, painting, Sutton Gallery, Timor Leste, War
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JULIAN HOOPER @ GALLERY 9
THIS EXHIBITION of paintings and works on paper by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julian Hooper, presents figures made up of incongruous elements like fish tails and fruit, reminiscent of Arcimboldo. Titled Golden Solvent, this is Julian Hooper’s second solo show at Gallery 9. Curator Victoria Lynn writes: “Hooper has compared them with figures from fashion […]
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SODA_JERK @ KUDOS GALLERY, SYDNEY
Dynamo video artist duo Soda_Jerk have been at it again. Their current work titled After the Rainbow is a 2-channel video installation that investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema. Known for their work in found audio and visual samples this video is Soda_Jerk’s second installment in “The Dark Matter Cycle” – a series of video remixes that […]
LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1911-2010
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, famed French-born American sculptor, has passed away in New York aged 98.
DAN PERJOVSCHI ON VERNISSAGE_TV
[youtube ypuXCSJudtA] DAN PERJOVSCHI is an artist who has taken political cartooning out of the news and into galleries, working directly onto the walls of some of the world’s leading art venues, including the atrium of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Much of Perjovschi’s work has dealt with the birth-pangs of the EU, including […]
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Tagged Art, cartooning, Dan Perjovschi, EU, MOMA, political art, Romania, street art, VernissageTV
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DAVID SERISIER @ LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY
David Serisier’s latest body of abstract paintings further explores his interest into the perception of colour and light; issues of materiality and immateriality; and his passion for the geometry of the square. The exhibition is made up of five large paintings of varying monochromatic colours, four smaller monochromatic paints, and a series of prints made […]
ROBERT ROONEY @ TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE
THE FIVE PAINTINGS in Robert Rooney’s latest exhibition are based on images by cartoonists who signed themselves Picq, Vire and GOD. These cartoons were sourced from copies of Le Rire, a French satirical magazine that Robert Rooney found in a second-hand bookshop in 1999. Le Rire (Laughter) was founded by Felix Juven in October 1894, in a […]
WHAT @ GALLERY 9, SYDNEY
THE ARTIST known as what is one of the most enigmatic art identities in Sydney. MCA curator Glenn Barkley profiled what for us in 2008 and since then what‘s work has been acquired by several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. For this latest exhibition at Gallery 9, provocatively entitled Satanism, the artist is […]
KILL PIXIE @ EDWINA CORLETTE, BRISBANE
ONE OF OUR favourite young artists – LA-based Australian, Kill Pixie (aka Mark Whalen) – is having an exhibition of new works at Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane—and you only have one more week to see it. We profiled Kill Pixie in Issue 7. Not only were we really taken by his work, which betrays […]
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Tagged Art, Brisbane, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Graffiti, Kill Pixie, Mark Whalen, painting, street art
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