Present sense
IN one of Daniel Crooks’s most absorbing works, an elderly Chinese man is doing tai chi in a park in Shanghai.
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Relics tell a tale
A SMALL exhibition at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum is dedicated to the way Australians have memorialised their past.
Framing modern anxiety
PHOTOGRAPHERS Richard Avedon and Edward Steichen are part of Selling Dreams, which comes to the State Library of NSW from London.
Life on the road
FIFTEEN centuries ago, a wealthy public servant was buried in northeastern China. His grave was rediscovered by accident in 1999.
The big picture of this harsh land
VISITORS to the UK show of Australian art may have surprises in store.
Milestone moment
THE National Museum has mounted an exhibition designed to take the visitor into the world of Australia before the catastrophe of World War I.
Noise in the void
THE first work you encounter in this reconstruction of Australia’s first conceptual art exhibition is an aerial photograph of a city block.
Squaring the cube
EARLY Australian art, from the first days of the colony 225 years ago, was concerned with the experience of living in a distant and unfamiliar land.
Ancient bearers of tales
IT is impossible to do more than speculate what John Hugh Sutton, a brilliant classical studies scholar, might have accomplished had he lived.
Complex fields of vision
SINCE Stefano Carboni took over the directorship of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, he has brought several important exhibitions to Perth.
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