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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . In this bumper posting, a big call: in my opinion, the greatest photography based image maker in the world today. Tillmans challenges the way we...
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Exhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 11th October 2012 – 27th January 2013 Exhibition dates at the National Gallery of Art: 17th February – 5th May 2013 . What a fascinating subject....
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Exhibition: ‘nude men: from 1800 to the present day’ at the Leopold Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – extended until 4th March 2013 . . Martin Ferdinand Quadal Nude Life Class at the Vienna Art Academy in the St.-Anna-Gebäude 1787 © Paintings Gallery of the Academy...
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Exhibition: ‘Flatlands: photography and everyday space’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 13th September 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This posting contains one of my favourite early works by Fiona Hall, Leura, New South Wales (1974, below) which is redolent of all the themes...
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Exhibition: ‘XTRAVAGANZA. Staging Leigh Bowery’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . I can die happy now that I have had the opportunity to do a posting on this amazing man. He challenged social stereotypes turning his body into...
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Exhibition: ‘National Geographic: The Past and Future Present’ at Steven...
Exhibition dates: 10th January 10 – 16th February 2013 . A wonderfully eclectic posting! Many thankx to Steven Kasher Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on...
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Exhibition: ‘The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design’...
Exhibition dates: 25th September, 2012 – 24th February, 2013 . It is a pleasure to able to post more of the tough, no nonsense photographs of Ray. K. Metzker. Atlantic City (1966, below) is an absolute...
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Review: ‘Shrouds’ by Mike Reid at the Colour Factory Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 8th March – 30th March 2013 . “Any discovery changing the nature, or the destination of an object or phenomenon constitutes a Surrealist achievement. Already the automats are...
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Exhibition: ‘Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the...
Exhibition dates: 22nd December 2012 – 7th April 2013 . Many thankx to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Candida Höfer: A Return to Italy’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th April 2013 . Ah symmetry, that vague sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance, that patterned self-similarity that, through Hofer’s large format...
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Exhibition: ‘The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th April 2012 – 29th April 2013 . Another fascinating exhibition and a bumper posting to boot (pardon the pun!) A panoply of famous photographers along with a few I had never heard...
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Exhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 17th February – 5th May 2013 . Further images from this impressive exhibition devoted to the art of photographic manipulation before the advent of digital imagery from its second...
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Exhibition: ‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ at the Harry Ransom Center, The...
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Harry Ransom Center for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Concrete – Photography and Architecture’ at Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th May 2013 . When creating this blog, so much of my time is spent cleaning up clearly inadequate media images, an example of which can be seen below. I have become very...
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Exhibition: ‘Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction’ at Moderna Museet,...
Exhibition dates: 16 February – 26 May 2013 . I don’t often say this about an artist but OMG, I am in love! Five years before Wassily Kandinsky (he of the book Concerning the Spiritual In Art 1910),...
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Exhibition: ‘Pat Brassington: Quill’ at Bett Gallery, Hobart
Exhibition dates: 10 May – 31 May 2013 . Always enigmatic but slightly more accessible new work from Australia’s master of ambiguity Pat Brassington. Not that I would say that any of these images are...
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Exhibition: ‘Joan Ross: Touching Other People’s Shopping’ at Bett Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 7th June – 28th June 2013 . The claiming of things The touching of things The digging of land The tagging of place The taking over of the world Tag and capture. Tag and capture. Shop,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George – London Pictures’ at MKM Museum Küppersmühle...
Exhibition dates: 20th March 20 – 30th June 2013 . I used to think that Gilbert & George’s work was inventive and relevant, that it had something important to say about contemporary culture. These...
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Exhibition: ‘The Naked Man’ at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2013 . Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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