Humorist helped Germans to laugh again
OBITUARY Loriot (Vicco von Buelow) Humorist and artist. Born Brandenburg, November 12, 1923. Died Bavaria, August 22, aged 87.
Visual Arts
Desert movement well on track
FEW had seen anything like it. And if they had, they certainly weren’t calling it art.
Friends lay their bouquets for Olley
FLOWERS and friends were in abundance as hundreds gathered in Sydney to celebrate the life of artist Margaret Olley.
Olley’s studio could live again
RATHER than a museum, the late painter’s home should become a residence for working artists.
Fears for bumper festival
THERE are no guarantees for the future of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, despite its success.
Freud’s life writ large
LUCIAN Freud has been dead for less than a month but already the first book deal has been sealed for a “revelatory” biography.
Public Works: Greg Johns
SO passionate is Greg Johns about his craft that in 2001 he set up his own sculpture park and sculpture biennial in the Adelaide Hills.
Liquid truth
PHILOSOPHY began with the hypothesis that the world was made of water. When students encounter this idea, they tend to think it odd, if not naive.
Correggio purchase masterstroke for NGV
IT is a great achievement for the National Gallery of Victoria to have acquired a significant work by such an important artist of the Renaissance.
Dollar brings Renaissance to gallery
THE National Gallery of Victoria’s latest acquisition is an Italian Renaissance painting by Correggio.
Olley still life tipped to set record
A 1975 still life of flowers and fruit painted by Margaret Olley will go under the hammer in Melbourne on August 31.
Britpop brothers pit Jesus against Nazis
THE Chapman brothers have a new show. Or, rather, the Chapman brothers do not have a new show. Except that they do have a new show. Confused?
Traditional themes mine new materials
VISUAL ARTS: Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, until December 19.
Anyone want a cheap Whiteley?
CALL it the Bargain Brett Sale: seven Brett Whiteley oils and sketches with a reserve of about $1.7 million will be offered for auction.
Intern nation
THE Enemy at Home is a moving reflection on the energy and ingenuity of the human spirit under very difficult conditions.
Public Works: Guy Warren
A CHANCE encounter with David Attenborough in London in the early 1950s changed the direction of Guy Warren’s career.
Novice at 96 marks indigenous art
IT was only about five years ago that Dickie Minyintiri, already into his ninth decade, first picked up a brush.
Celebrating creativity on a grand scale
WITH more than 4000 artists in 543 venues, the annual South Australian Living Artists festival was launched at the AGSA’s refurbished Elder Wing.
Seeing his land with the speed of light
FRED Williams was an artist who would paint only in Australia, nowhere else, because he knew it well.
Drawings not long for this world
THOM Buchanan has a remarkably relaxed attitude towards the fate of his work.
Monkey business over art award
A PAINTING portraying Jesus, Mary and Joseph as orang-utans is a finalist in the Blake Prize for religious art.
Portrait of an activist and bureaucrat
IN February 1965, a busload of Sydney University students, motivated by the US civil rights movement, travelled around regional NSW for two weeks.
Primitive brotherhood of masters
WHEN Giorgio Vasari published his artists’ biographies in the mid-16th century, he distinguished the Renaissance into three phases or “manners”.
Sotheby’s grooms a Boyd for $1.2m sale
SOTHEBY’S Australia hopes to defy the flat art market and fetch a record $1.2 million at auction for a rare Arthur Boyd painting.
Weimar breaks down the barriers
ARTISTS of all kinds are in concert on a Berlin theme.
The arty Brit who came and conquered
AN international search is under way to fill the top job at the Art Gallery of NSW after Edmund Capon announced his retirement as director.
Fireworks and a dash of Pulp
JARVIS Cocker and Pulp stole the show on the closing night of Splendour in the Grass.
Mixed judgments and lively debate
IN 1991, the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition declared the city’s aspiration to become an international chamber music capital.
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