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The art of adapting
Aspects of recent and contemporary Japanese culture are reflected in two exhibitions at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Pleasure and pain
LIFE, death and rebirth are explored in Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament at MONA in Tasmania.
Life, death, ego and video
BILL Viola’s works are not about something so much as they are something.
Suspended belief at the NGV
TAKAHIRO Iwasaki’s model of the Shinto temple at Itsukushima in Japan, a commission from the NGV, is his most ambitious so far.
Chinese allegories
MULTIPLE screens featuring black-and-white footage are the norm for works by Chinese artist Yang Fudong.
Man’s beast friends
TWO interesting exhibitions are in their last weeks: the first devoted to horses, the second to our connection with animals.
Bright light, big cities
DREAMS and Imagination: Light in the Modern City is a small but attractive exhibition that covers a selection of Australian modernist photographers.
Silence is ashen
ZHANG Huan’s Sydney Buddha is a poetic idea but it seems as though the scale and costly production process consumed the artist’s attention.
State of the union
ARTHUR Boyd was a poetic, not a political painter, and the Bride series is not primarily about the plight of Aborigines.
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