Transcending earth to capture soul
Japan has some of the world’s most modern cities, yet its heart still belongs to the countryside and to the mountains.
Christopher Allen
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Australia made good artists great
The new experience that Australia offered, both in the earliest days and throughout the colonial period, led to a curious phenomenon.
Won’t someone think of the art?
An over-designed and gratuitous entry at Melbourne’s NGV does not bode well for an exhibition of the work of an appealing but second-ranking painter.
Images from a pre-digital past
This 40-year survey of work by Anne Zahalka raises questions about truth in photography.
A portrait of a very important man
Another painter might have felt some sense of queasiness or even despair as he was drawn into painting this busy and extravagant allegory of Kevin Rudd’s government.
Our galleries have problems, but Frida’s a winner in Adelaide
There’s nothing worth seeing at the Art Gallery of NSW this winter, but many smaller galleries have done far better.
Beauty of biblical etches
Rembrandt took the art of printmaking to a new level of intensity, as powerful as anything he could have done in painting
Stretch to believe report has drawn a line under it
It is hard to feel that the NGA report has done much to allay the suspicions that hang over the APY Art Centre Collective paintings, let alone the management of the APYACC.
A trip to Maitland’s fine regional art gallery is well rewarded
A strikingly effective, harmonious and well-hung exhibition of art from the Hunter River region affirms local galleries as vibrant hubs for intellectual stimulation.
The great fallacy around the Eureka flag
Most misleading is the casting of the Eureka riot as some kind of ‘democratic’ uprising against the British government, as though Australian democracy had arisen out of a revolt against British rule. Australia’s democracy was actually inherited from Britain.
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