Desolation as made by men and women
THE Museum of Sydney is at present holding two notable but extremely different exhibitions. Not far from the Martin Sharp survey is the much quieter, even laconic Smalltown.
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The fascination of St Francis
VISUAL ART: Arthur Boyd: Tapestries of the Life of St Francis of Assisi. Newman College Chapel, The University of Melbourne, to 4 December
Chinese whispers
CHINOISERIE is a slightly quaint term, carrying with it a flavour of the rococo, of rather precious 18th-century interior design inspired by an image of China that bore little relation to reality.
Tumult captured on paper
Dobell Drawing Prize: Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Until January 31.
Figures no match for the landscape
Sculpture by the Sea 2010Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk Until November 15.
Children of the revolution
NAPOLEON is said to have compared China with a sleeping giant. When China woke, he predicted, the world would tremble.
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