Figures no match for the landscape
Sculpture by the Sea 2010Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk Until November 15.
Christopher Allen
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NAPOLEON is said to have compared China with a sleeping giant. When China woke, he predicted, the world would tremble.
Portraiture as a mugs game
WHO will it be this time? The finalists in Australia’s most famous and consistently contentious portrait prize have been announced.
Defining nature of a people
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Beauty from the ugly truth
DEGAS’S popularity today masks the sometimes brutal realism of his work.
Surrealist, critic, charming pessimist
James Gleeson was one of Australia’s most important and respected artists and for more than 50 years our leading exponent of surrealism
From here to modernity
OBJECTS that once embodied the quest to be modern havebecome symbols of nostalgia, writes Christopher Allen.
Why I quit the Blake Prize jury
ADAM Cullen thinks I find his work shocking and that I resigned from the Blake Prize judging panel because the other two judges voted to include his picture of a “Jew on the cross”, as he so sensitively puts it.
Art’s classic controversy
ARTIST Jeffrey Smart put it succinctly over the weekend: “The National Art School must not go to the College of Fine Art. It must be stopped.”
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