Our galleries have problems, but Frida’s a winner in Adelaide
There’s nothing worth seeing at the Art Gallery of NSW this winter, but many smaller galleries have done far better.
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Beauty of biblical etches
Rembrandt took the art of printmaking to a new level of intensity, as powerful as anything he could have done in painting
Stretch to believe report has drawn a line under it
It is hard to feel that the NGA report has done much to allay the suspicions that hang over the APY Art Centre Collective paintings, let alone the management of the APYACC.
A trip to Maitland’s fine regional art gallery is well rewarded
A strikingly effective, harmonious and well-hung exhibition of art from the Hunter River region affirms local galleries as vibrant hubs for intellectual stimulation.
The great fallacy around the Eureka flag
Most misleading is the casting of the Eureka riot as some kind of ‘democratic’ uprising against the British government, as though Australian democracy had arisen out of a revolt against British rule. Australia’s democracy was actually inherited from Britain.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: politics, sex and religion
Rossetti, in particular, captured the highly-strung but publicly repressed sexuality of the Victorian age.
The evolution of Saint Francis
The beloved holy man has inspired art and imagery from the day he died almost 800 years ago to the present.
Why some of Australia’s best art can be found in the regions
Some colonial works chart the nascent colony, as recorded by artists trained in the best of European traditions.
Cook: a humane, prudent man
A giant of the science of his day, a book sheds new light on Captain Cook’s remarkable forbearance even in the face of intolerable provocation.
Finding the spirit of movement
Australian dancer Philippa Cullen, who died at just 25 after visiting an ashram in India, left a fascinating legacy
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