Image conscious
VISITORS may experience a first moment of panic as they find themselves face to face with the impression of an inscription from several thousand years ago.
Christopher Allen
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Bush focus
FRED Williams died almost 30 years ago but remains the most important recent exponent of Australian landscape.
Scholar who set the standard
BERNARD Smith’s approach will continue to help demystify art.
Seeing was believing
SYDNEY, Melbourne and Australia’s unique fauna are the focus of two exhibitions exploring the early days of white settlement.
German dilemmas
IT is fortuitous that Jacqueline Strecker’s exhibition should open while The Enemy at Home is still showing at the Museum of Sydney.
Great explorers
EXPERIMENTAL gentlemen was apparently what the ordinary seamen called the scientists and intellectuals who accompanied James Cook’s great voyages.
Liquid truth
PHILOSOPHY began with the hypothesis that the world was made of water. When students encounter this idea, they tend to think it odd, if not naive.
Correggio purchase masterstroke for NGV
IT is a great achievement for the National Gallery of Victoria to have acquired a significant work by such an important artist of the Renaissance.
Intern nation
THE Enemy at Home is a moving reflection on the energy and ingenuity of the human spirit under very difficult conditions.
Primitive brotherhood of masters
WHEN Giorgio Vasari published his artists’ biographies in the mid-16th century, he distinguished the Renaissance into three phases or “manners”.
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