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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Master of light still in shadow
BY the middle of the 16th century, Titian was not just a famous artist but one of the two greatest living contemporary masters.
Sense and sensation
THIS year’s Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery lays a particularly strong emphasis on South Pacific Islander art.
Dancing with the demimonde
THE National Gallery of Australia’s fine exhibition on Toulouse-Lautrec shows a dark and even desperate edge to the world he inhabited.
Spiritual paradox at play
IT is interesting to hear Anish Kapoor, whose work is lavishly displayed at the MCA, declare: “I have nothing to say as an artist.”
Drawn from nature
EDWARD Lear (1812-88) is probably familiar to most readers as the author of nonsense verse, especially The Owl and the Pussycat (1871).
Missing in action
ALEXANDER the Great is perhaps the greatest military commander in history, and certainly the greatest conqueror.
A vertigo of exaltation
THE great attraction of the Blue Mountains has always been the sublime spectacle of a vast and ancient place.
Angle of repose
THE Queensland Art Gallery’s exhibition of late works by Ian Fairweather belongs to the phase when he settled down as a recluse.
A vision frozen in time
THE impressionists had never been homogeneous, but by the time of their last collective exhibition in 1886, the divergences had grown more apparent.
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