Erotic ambiguity
THE idea that the human body can be beautiful is the single greatest legacy of Greek art, and it is a far more original one than we often imagine.
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Creative frontier
NEWCASTLE benefited from having some talented convict artists and senior officials with an interest in art, as a new exhibition shows.
Distilled experience
THE Laurie Anderson exhibition at the Samstag Museum is testimony to the variety of ways in which one performance artist has extended her work.
A colourful evocation of van Gogh
JUDGES thankfully have avoided rewarding any of the extremes of oversizing, photo realism and various attention-getting devices.
Fields of vision
JOHN H. Jones’s pictures of colonial Victoria feel a little like time travel.
Portraiture that’s a snap to paint
THE loss of homely security guards is the least of the Archibald Prize’s worries.
Master strokes
TO understand the art of the past – even of the recent past – always demands an effort of the imagination.
Connoisseurs and critics
HISTORY has been written since the time of Herodotus, but it acquired a special momentum during and after the romantic period.
The paper boy
THOMAS Demand treats photography as the final stage in the production of an image that has evolved through a long pre-production phase.
Wide of the heart
HUMAN life is fundamentally determined by the universal facts of birth, growing to maturity, earning a living, reproduction and, finally, death.
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