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.
Christopher Allen
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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.
Artful meeting of East and West
This exhibition shows how leading artists Cressida Campbell and Margaret Preston melded Japanese printing techniques with an Australian aesthetic.
Felling William Crowther’s statue wasn’t the way to right a historical wrong
Not all civic statues are appropriate for all time, but common public space needs to be respected – not vandalised.
Is art the key to a circular economy?
Artist Nicholas Mangan’s new exhibition A World Undone at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia explores a time before consciousness and life itself.
Deserving winner in a field of mostly undeserving rivals
Archibald Prize-winning artist Laura Jones has understood that you have to see through and, as it were, behind original images, not just reproduce them.
Lost and found in Pompeii
Recently discovered frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology highlight the skills of regional masters commissioned to paint them.
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