Connected and together
WE can fundamentally misunderstand what someone means when they speak to us if we mistake the purpose of their utterance.
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Remembrance of a talent lost
BRETT Whiteley has the rather dubious distinction of being familiar even to people who know nothing about art.
Going south
ADELAIDE was founded in 1836 without convicts and it has always been the pride of the city that it never backed down on this principle.
A quiet achiever with a shrewd eye
GERARD Vaughan has done an admirable job steering an institution with a vast collection.
Keeping it together
THE collapse of communism in East Germany is part of the subject of Everything Falls Apart at Artspace.
Napoleonic adventures
THE National Gallery of Victoria’s Napoleon exhibition comes to Australia in the anniversary year of the emperor’s fateful decision to invade Russia.
Big claims but few surprises
JUST as we ignore the spin of politicians, we learn to discount the cliches with which art is marketed.
Special arrangement
THE Australian collection at the Art Gallery of NSW has been rehung, with only one or two questionable placements.
Meat matters
THE title of Berlinde de Bruyckere’s exhibition at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, We are All Flesh, is deliberately ambiguous.
Signs of the times
THE thinking of another time can be hard to understand, but the tone and sensibility that make ideas possible is even more mysterious.
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