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Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2015
The International Foto Biennale is a nice way to spend a day or weekend in Ballarat, walking from here to there, looking at photos from here and there. FIrst, two frames for viewing: Frame 1: If...
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Sex, Private Life and the Photographer
I myself am hell; nobody’s here— only skunks When Robert Lowell published Life Studies in 1959 he kickstarted confessional poetry. A young Nan Goldin took photos through the 1970s that would become The...
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How to Paint a Novelist: Michelle de Kretser
At the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Geography, history and travel: Thurs 22 October 2015 5:30 – 6:30pm. Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser discusses her writing practice and her portrait...
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Whistler’s Mom & Other Marketing Exaggerations
1. HOW “GREAT, GREAT, GREAT” IS WHISTLER’S MOTHER? It took, give or take, an hour from start time of the opening to actually standing before the Revered Object — “Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1” by...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Ai Weiwei Won’t Shut Up
For AW & AS. WHAT IS AN AI WEIWEI? A: It’s 360 children’s backpacks, or 28 tonnes of steel rebar or 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds — displayed as monuments of mourning. A: It’s a particular...
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It’s Painting, Stupid! Why Painting Will Never Die
‘Painting is dead,’ said Paul Delaroche in 1839, a French painter ironically best known for his fateful quote. That was the year the world was introduced to the daguerreotype, the photograph as we know...
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Nine Powerpoints on John Berger
By W.H. Chong ONE — Berger always begun with, or eventually arrived at, love. Once he wrote, remarkably, that seeing the beloved can be recognised as love itself, even more fully realised than...
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Hobart: It’s DARK, it’s MOFO
Hobart at night is awash with pools of red light. Building facades, boats, reflections, windows. Black hoods with red crosses — we’re in Dark Mofo. PUSSY RIOT & CATTLE KILL The program is thick and...
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Is Gerhard Richter the world’s greatest living artist?
One of the publicity quotes for the GOMA show declares that Gerhard Richter is the world’s greatest living painter. Q: Is Gerhard Richter the world’s greatest living artist? : : : A: No.1 of Six...
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“The Tent” :: is apocalyse now?
THE TENT: a mini essay Pictures, paintings and art: in contemporary practice these often do not overlap. Rick Amor is one of Australia’s premier painters of pictures: a traditional skills-based...
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