Who is Jordan Wolfson, Anyway?
When it became known last year that the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) had commissioned an artwork by a controversial American artist that few Australians had ever heard of and had paid AUD 6.8 million for it, public and critics alike were aghast. Journalists rushed into print to damn the work unseen and to question […]
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Tagged Jordan Wolfson, Michael Young, National Gallery of Australia
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Covid U-Turns
In 2012 in Bali and Java, Australian–Indonesian artist Jumaadi began collecting small one hundred–year–old vernacular timber houses. Some were decorated with ornate carvings; others were lightly ornamented with painted panels that had gradually faded in the damp Indonesian climate. His mission was to rescue the decaying houses and move them to his compound in Surabaya […]
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Tagged Ah Xian, Covid-19, Danelle Bergstrom, Desmond Lazaro, Guan Wei, JUMAADI, Khadim Ali, Michael Young, Nike Savvas
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