Christopher Allen

VISUAL ART: The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Until September 4.

AS I mentioned a few weeks ago, this year’s Anne Landa exhibition comprises a well-chosen and thoughtful selection of works.

PHOTOGRAPHY was not invented in America, but somehow that feels like its natural home.

EARLY last year, Heide Museum presented an exhibition devoted to the theme of cubism in Australian art, which was reviewed in this column.

THE National Gallery of Victoria, founded in 1861, celebrated its sesquicentenary on Tuesday.

NOT just Ned is a sprawling anthology of an exhibition, dealing with the presence in Australia of a remarkable people.

ART history, like all the intellectual systems we construct to make sense of the world, is prone to simplifications.

OPINIONS about art are commonly prefaced with the disclaimer that the speaker doesn’t know anything about the matter.

VISUAL ART: The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. State Library of NSW, Sydney. Until June 26.

ALL art is highly artificial because it entails giving shape and meaning to the amorphous flow of experience.