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Exhibition: ‘Alexander Calder – The Great Discovery’ at Gemeentemuseum Den...
Exhibition dates: 11th February – 28th May 2012 . Always one of my favourites. He only needed some wire, a pair of pliers and his own bare hands to create magic. Through life force Calder transfers...
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Exhibition: ‘Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun’ at the Art Institute of...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 3rd June 2012 . “In many ways, Cahun’s life was marked by a sense of role reversal, and her public identity became a commentary upon not only her own, but the...
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Exhibition: ‘Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964′ at the de Young Museum, San...
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 3rd June 2012 . These early figurative urbanscapes by Arthur Tress show the beginnings of his later Surrealist pictorial style (do a Google images search on Tress to see...
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Exhibition: ‘Cindy Sherman’ at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 11th June 2012 . Ceaselessly inventive, the bodies (literally) of work of Cindy Sherman are a wonder to behold. From film stills to head shots, from history portrait...
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Exhibition: ‘Francesca Woodman’ at The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 13th June 2012 . In 1981, at the age of twenty-two, she committed suicide. Simple words, profound effect. The world lost one of its truly unique artists and at such a...
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Exhibition: ‘Metamorphosis of Japan after the War: Photography 1945-1964′ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 17th June 2012 . The joy of the discharged soldier (upon survival); the regimentation of the market place; the inquisitiveness of youth. The blackness (incineration) of...
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Video: ‘Disturbing Visions: the photography of Roger Ballen’ – Lens Culture...
. A very interesting video from Lens Culture where Roger Ballen explains his working methodology. Inspiration comes from inside yourself, always! . . . Roger Ballen: Lens Culture Conversations with...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of...
Exhibition dates: 10th March – 8th July 2012 . . “There is no one ‘Mexican photography,’ but one strand that runs throughout is a synthesis of aesthetics and politics. We see that with Manuel Alvarez...
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Review: ‘Pat Brassington: À Rebours’ at the Australian Centre for...
Exhibition dates: 11th August – 23rd September 2012 . . Installation photographs of Pat Brassington: À Rebours at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne . . . This is a...
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Exhibition: ‘Lost Places. Sites of Photography’ at the Hamburger Kunsthalle,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 23rd September 2012 . “Fredric Jameson wrote that in the postmodern world, the subject is not alienated but fragmented. He explained that the notion of alienation presumes...
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Review: ‘Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place’ at the Centre for Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 28th September – 11th November 2012 . . . Installation photographs of the series Beneath the Roses (2003-2008) from the exhibition Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place at the Centre...
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Exhibition: ‘Eugène Atget: Old Paris’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales,...
Exhibition dates: 24th August – 4th November 2012 . “…I have assembled photographic glass negatives… in all the old streets of Old Paris, artistic documents showing the beautiful civil architecture...
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Exhibition: ‘Edouard Baldus and the Modern Landscape. Important Salt Prints...
Exhibition dates: 12th October – 9th November 2012 . A beautiful, complimentary post to the last one on the exhibition Eugène Atget: Old Paris. It is interesting to compare the styles of the two...
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Exhibition: ‘Two of a Mind’ at the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Exhibition dates: 12th September – 17th November, 2012 RAY K. METZKER: Pictus Interruptus RUTH THORNE-THOMSEN: Expeditions . I like both these bodies of work but it is the enigmatic Expeditions that...
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Exhibition: ‘The Body as Protest’ at the Albertina, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 5th September – 2nd December 2012 . “The past neglect of the body in social theory was a product of Western mind-body dualism that divided human experience into bodily and cognitive...
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Exhibition: ‘Dark Romanticism. From Goya to Max Ernst’ at the Städel Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 26th September 2012 – 20th January, 2013 . Many thankx to the Städel Museum for allowing me to publish the reproductions of the artwork in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Installation shots of the new Jeff Wall exhibition at NGV Australia. Review to follow in due course. Many thankx to Jemma Altmeier and all the...
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Exhibition: ‘Licht-Bilder (Light images). Fritz Winter and Abstract...
Exhibition dates: 9th November 2012 – 17th February 2013 . The glorious paintings of Fritz Winter show a beautiful synergy with the abstract photographs. The relationship between painting and...
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Melbourne’s magnificent eleven 2012
. Here’s my pick of the eleven best artists/exhibitions which featured on the Art Blart blog in 2012. Enjoy! Marcus . 1/ Review: The work of Robyn Hosking, AT_SALON at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond...
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Exhibition: ‘Manuel Álvarez Bravo. A Photographer on the Watch (1902-2002)’...
Exhibition dates: 16th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . What a dazzling, sensual (sur)realist Manuel Álvarez Bravo was, one of my favourite photographers of all time. What an eye, what an artist! The...
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