Civilising mission
HUMANITY has produced three great clusters of civilisations that have eventually extended to all the people of the world.
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The ancestor game
LIFE, Death and Magic is a fascinating exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia that is devoted to the art of animistic and ancestor cults.
Big Mac
WHEN Lachlan Macquarie arrived in Sydney 200 years ago, he was administered several oaths, one of which seems incongruously theological.
Portraits of the colony
IN the 19th century, most Australian artists came from England or various parts of Europe.
Secret knowledge
ANDREW Sayers, the new head of the National Museum of Australia, is one of this country’s most talented museum directors.
Virtuoso with a camera
PERHAPS the first thing that strikes one about the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz in this Sydney exhibition is his profound understanding of tonal value.
Steeped in tradition
WE drink water to quench our thirst, according to Lu Yu, author of the Chinese classic Chajing, wine to banish melancholy and tea to clear the mind.
Things disappear
FIFTY years ago, abstraction was widely considered to be not only the most significant art movement of its time but the culmination of the whole history of painting.
Through a lens darkly
THE National Portrait Gallery has two concurrent exhibitions that may seem, at first sight, as unlike as possible.
Into the inferno
CONTEMPLATING the serene countryside that surrounds the TarraWarra Museum of Art, it is hard to feel apprehensive about the danger of bushfires.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/christopher-allen/page/85