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Review: ‘Ian Strange: SUBURBAN’ at NGV Studio, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 15th September 2013 . It is disappointing when you invite friends from Melbourne and interstate to an opening and one of them turns to you and says, “Well, what was all...
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Exhibition: ‘Piero Manzoni. When Bodies Became Art’ at Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Exhibition dates: 26th June – 22nd September 2013 . A slight switch in gears for the next two postings. Conceptual, sculptural, minimal, monochromatic, corporeal, haptically varied surfaces that are...
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Exhibition: ‘Lifelike’ at The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Exhibition dates: 23rd June – 22nd September 2013 . Life (like). . “For the French theorist Jean Baudrillard, this consciousness of construction finds its most powerful expression in the concept of...
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Exhibition: ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from...
Exhibition dates: 1st June – 7th October 2013 . R U SORRY? Do you feel FORGIVEN? What do I have to feel sorry for I only arrived here yesterday I FORGIVE you for all the SADNESS and SORROW that...
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 9th June 9 2013 – 17th May 2015 . This is the last in my trilogy of postings on exhibitions titled Distance and Desire which have featured African art from The Walther Collection,...
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Exhibition: ‘The Gender Show’ at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Exhibition dates: 15th June – 13th October 2013 . I am so sick of museums and art galleries not allowing me to publish photographs that I collect freely available elsewhere on the web to illustrate...
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Exhibition: ‘Flowers & Mushrooms’ at the Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg,...
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 27th October 2013 . Many thankx to the Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Text: “The Book of Memory” extract from Paul Auster’s ‘The Invention of...
. “The Book of Memory. Book Four. Several blank pages. To be followed by profuse illustrations. Old family photographs, for each person his own family, going back as many generations as possible. To...
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Exhibition: ‘Nude in Public: Sascha Schneider, Homoeroticism and the Male...
Exhibition dates: 20th September – 8th December 2013 . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* Many thankx to...
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Exhibition: ‘Melbourne Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November 2013 – 23rd March 2014 . This is the first of a two-part posting on the huge Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The photographs in...
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Vale Saul Leiter: the world will be less colour-full, less abstract, less...
. “Seeing is a neglected enterprise,” Mr. Leiter often said . “I am not immersed in self-admiration,” he said. “When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning...
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Exhibition: ‘Melbourne Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November – 23rd March 2014 . This is the second of a two-part posting on the huge Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The photographs in this...
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Exhibition: ‘Masculine / Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the...
Exhibition dates: 24th September 2013 – 2nd January 2014 . The von Gloeden is stunning and some of the paintings are glorious: the muscularity / blood red colour in Falguière by Lutteurs d’Alexandre...
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Videos: William Klein
. . William Klein: In Pictures from Tate Modern . . The Many Lives of William Klein (2012) . . LIKE ART BLART ON FACEBOOK Back to topFiled under: American, american photographers, beauty, black and...
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Exhibition: ‘A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American...
Exhibition dates: 28th June 2013 – 5th January 2014 1st floor West, American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, N.W.) Browse the exhibition and related works on the exhibition website . The next two weeks...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition dates: 9th August 2013 – 5th January 2014 . The first posting of a new year, and finally I get to do a posting on one of the greatest photographers of all time. Nobody has ever taken...
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Exhibition: ‘Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self’ at The Andy Warhol...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2013 – 12th January 2014 . Cindy Sherman, eat your actress out… A fascinating, erudite analysis of the difference between Edouard Manet’s Olympia and Yasumasa Morimura’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus...
Exhibition dates: 15th September 2013 – 20th January 2014 . Now this is portrait photography, and all done with relatively long exposures. By god did they know how to take a photograph that has some...
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Exhibition: ‘Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland’ at The Museum Of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November 2013 – 26th January 2014 MOCA Pacific Design Center . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF MALE NUDITY AND EROTIC IMAGES OF GAY MALE SEX – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE...
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Exhibition: ‘Guy Bourdin’ at the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 1st November 2013 – 26th January 2014 . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF FEMALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* . Many...
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