Let me tell you a story
FROM the Renaissance until the 19th century, history painting was the most highly esteemed genre in the Western tradition.
Christopher Allen
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Inventive, despite the preaching
ADELAIDE can be an odd place.
Cities of ambition
MOST of us today live in cities, especially in a country such as Australia where the population is almost absurdly concentrated in a few urban agglomerations.
On the money
WE take coins for granted today; they have been demoted to the status of change: what is left when you break a note.
Shock, horror
DAVID Walsh’s new museum is in a beautiful location, built into the hillside overlooking the broad reaches of the Derwent River in Hobart.
Search for truth and beauty
FOR some artists, truth may be found in great general themes, for others it’s in the minutiae of the everyday or in nuances of intimate experience.
A gamble on sex and death
DAVID Walsh, as probably everyone knows by now, is a kind of mathematical prodigy who has made a very large amount of money from gambling.
Mother complex
MOREAU was not interested in women in themselves.
Past masters
KENNETH Reed is a retired Sydney solicitor who has supported the arts in Australia and now has promised to bequeath his collection of paintings and ceramics to AGNSW.
Ancient style with contemporary edge
VISUAL ART: Bardayal “Lofty” Nadjamerrek. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Until March 20, 2011.
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