Edmund Capon’s success story
EDMUND Capon will be a hard act to follow.
Christopher Allen
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Fox studios
EMANUEL Phillips and Ethel Carrick Fox are surveyed properly for the first time in a fine exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Charmer of the Sydney school
MARGARET Olley’s influence as an artist, model and benefactor will endure.
Generous spirit who celebrated life
MARGARET Olley was almost certainly the best-loved figure in the art world of Sydney, if not of Australia.
Freud earned greatness through tenacity
LUCIAN Freud, who has died at 88, was one of those rare artists who periodically remind us that greatness is achieved only through single-minded, even stubborn, integrity.
Say you want a revolution
IDEAS, even words, have their day; the same sounds roll off the lips of one generation with a fathomless resonance and conviction, while to others they sound hollow, inert or ordinary.
Journey to the edge of reason
VISUAL ARTS: Inner Worlds.. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Until July 24.
Money talks
THE Art Gallery of NSW is experiencing an increasingly evident crisis of direction.
Pre-Heidelberg greatness
IT may seem early for such a nomination, but the NGV’s Eugene von Guerard: Nature Revealed can perhaps already be declared the exhibition of the year.
Inside out
THE importance of Japanese art to modern European painters in the second half of the 19th century is well known.
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