Art & Photographic Exhibitions
“A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp”
Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras and Ismet Redzovic, April 19, 2006
The recent Kienholz exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) spans more than forty years of artistic work by Ed Kienholz (1927-1994). On display are some of his earlier installations and scu...
Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea
By Paul Mitchell, April 3, 2006
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: until May 21, 2006 Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, France: June 18 to September 24, 2006
Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
By John Christian and Richard Phillips, March 16, 2006
Degenerates and Perverts, a richly illustrated 306-page book by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, examines the 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art and its impact on Australian...
Harlem art exhibition commemorates police shooting victim Amadou Diallo
By Clare Hurley, March 10, 2006
Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem has organized an exhibition to mark the seventh anniversary of the shooting of Amadou Diallo, the West African immigrant whose slaying in 1999 by four policemen in a hail ...
Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 2
By Clare Hurley, January 16, 2006
Russia! An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum, Las Vegas, until January 11, 2006, presenting selections from the State Hermitage Museum, ...
Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 1
By Clare Hurley, January 13, 2006
Russia! An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum, Las Vegas, until January 11, 2006, presenting selections from the State Hermitage Museum, ...
Soviet era posters at London’s Tate Modern
From Bolshevik internationalism to Stalinist nationalism
By Paul Mitchell, November 14, 2005
Soviet era posters on display at London’s Tate Modern museum are a powerful record of how the bureaucratic degeneration represented by the rise of Stalinism destroyed the young workers’ st...
“I am in the world to change the world”: The art and life of Käthe Kollwitz
By Joanne Laurier, July 26, 2005
A lithography exhibition currently on display at the Worcester [Massachusetts] Art Museum features works by European masters (Goya, Delacroix and others) and nineteenth century lithographers (Daumier ...
Demythologising requires a political appraisal
By Paul Bond, July 20, 2005
Frida Kahlo at the Tate Modern, London, through 9 October 2005
Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war: Part 2
New York art world’s apology for the Iraq war
By Clare Hurley, June 13, 2005
This is the second of a two-part article. The first part on Fernando Botero was posted on June 4, 2005.
Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war
Pulling one’s head out of the sand
By Clare Hurley, June 4, 2005
This is the first of a two-part series.
A dark and complex beauty
Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery
By Paul Bond, May 30, 2005
Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery, London, February 23-May 22, 2005
