Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao
In major art historical exhibitions of recent years, a slightly uncomfortable part of the entertainment has been to watch the museum preserve every inch of its turf while gesturing to acknowledge disputes about the legitimacy of the artists or movements represented. In this regard Paul Gauguin requires judicious handling. Adored by a massive public for […]
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Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture
Jordan Wolfson first came to the attention of the hermetically sealed New York art world with his work Real Violence, which was shown as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2017. This is an intentionally provocative two-and-a-half-minute video viewed wearing a virtual-reality headset and noise-cancelling headphones. In this work, a CGI dummy resembling the artist […]
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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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Cressida Campbell
Plastered across the press release for this survey show is a quote: “Every artist has their language – any half-decent artist has their particular handwriting, as Margaret Olley used to say – and it’s showing people how to see your vision of the world.” This sentiment, of vocabulary and vision, is true for all artists […]
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Know My Name
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where the charming Nick Mitzevich is now in charge. In his office last September, we remembered James Mollison, its first occupant, from whom Mitzevich, when appointed, took advice. Mollison had a […]
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Monet: Impression Sunrise
‘Monet: Impression, Sunrise’ at the NGA brings together works from the impressionist master and other artists to examine the founding of an art movement.
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Love and Desire
‘Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate’ features some of the most visited paintings from the Tate Britain collection.
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The New Darling Portrait Prize
The National Portrait Gallery (NGA) presents a new national portrait painting prize; the Darling Portrait Prize.
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Mike Parr | Foreign Looking
In line with his major retrospective, we pull from the archives an in-depth interview with Mike Parr about his practice that has galvanised audiences.
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Hetti Perkins brings art+soul to ABC1
With Hetti Perkins as your guide, journey through Australia and its rich variety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in the upcoming ABC series art+soul. The series screens on ABC1 beginning Tuesday, 8 July. With the National Gallery of Australia’s Indigenous collection as the springboard, the documentary travels the distances from Tasmania to Arnhem […]
