Journey into light and deep time
Lloyd Rees was ignored for most of his career. Now, the painter’s Tasmanian landscapes are on show in this fine exhibition.
Christopher Allen
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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s painstaking photography challenges us by experimenting with the dimensions of time and space.
Google before going to this ancient Egypt exhibition
The third significant Australian display of art from the time of the pharaohs is impressive but overdesigned and often visually confusing.
A gift that keeps on giving
The collection of 154 pieces of art given by Melbourne art dealer Joseph Brown to the National Gallery of Victoria reveals a taste that was open and even eclectic.
Descent into genre folie a deux
Grace Crowley seems to have drawn by Ralph Balson into genre so incompatible with her sensibility that it extinguished her inspiration.
Paul Gauguin a pedophile? Let’s be clear about the facts
This important survey of the French post-impressionist’s work is mercifully free of irrelevant ideological posturing.
Secrets of the past
An exhibition from the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, now at the National Museum of Australia, offers a more scholarly examination of ancient Egypt.
Essence of sensibility
Works by Wendy Sharpe and Peter Kingston display equally distinctive, if very different, aesthetic personalities.
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Every picture tells a story, even those manipulated
Images have been manipulated since the earliest days of photography, as this University of Sydney exhibition highlights.
Deep geological time on the canvas
A new exhibition, Stonework at Castlemaine Art Museum, takes a deep dive into the overbearing reality of geological time in 19th and 20th century landscapes paintings.
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