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Art and Photographic Exhibitions

     

10 April 2008
Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution

22 March 2008
American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago

24 January 2008
Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on-Part two

23 January 2008
Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on--Part one

3 December 2007
The artist Henry Moore: Power and humanity
Moore at Kew, London exhibition until March 30, 2008

20 October 2007
Landmark study records visionary architecture from the early years of the Soviet Union

8 October 2007
Enigma and perhaps evasion (or "hide and seek"): the realism of German painter Neo Rauch

26 July 2007
Damien Hirst's main obsession is wealth, not mortality

14 May 2007
Emily Carr: Painter, writer ... symbol

4 January 2007
Edouard Manet and France's ill-fated puppet

18 September 2006
No nonsense about Dada

6 September 2006
Hitler's favourite sculptor: New exhibition displays the work of Arno Breker

2 June 2006
Interview with Zoe Strauss, photographer in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night

11 May 2006
A barometer of the American cultural zeitgeist: the Whitney Biennial 2006

19 April 2006
"A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp"
Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

3 April 2006
Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

10 March 2006
Harlem art exhibition commemorates police shooting victim Amadou Diallo

16 January 2006
Back on "the main stage": Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum--part 2

13 January 2006
Back on "the main stage": Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum--part 1

14 November 2005
Soviet era posters at London's Tate Modern
From Bolshevik internationalism to Stalinist nationalism

26 July 2005
"I am in the world to change the world": The art and life of Käthe Kollwitz

20 July 2005
Demythologising requires a political appraisal
Frida Kahlo at the Tate Modern

4 June 2005
Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war
Pulling one's head out of the sand

30 May 2005
A dark and complex beauty
Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery

22 February 2005
An "uplifting" diversion in New York's Central Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates"

18 January 2005
Modigliani--an artist between worlds

18 December 2004
Pennsylvania steel works mural restored: rescuing history from the dustbin

8 December 2004
The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
People of the Twentieth Century: August Sander's Photographic Portrait of Germany

31August 2004
Influence and the rise of modern art Turner
Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, June 12 to September 12

7 June 2004
The significance of the Momart art fire

20 March 2004
In the absence of an explanation: the World Trade Center memorial site

3 February 2004
Resistance is not always the whole picture:
Hong Sung Dam's Dawn woodcuts and the Gwangju uprising

17 January 2004
More of the big lie that "socialist realism" emerged from Soviet revolutionary art
Dream factory communism: the visual culture of the Stalin era--an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

19 December 2003
The sculpture of Edgar Degas
Degas Sculptures, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 11, 2003, to January 4, 2004

14 October 2003
The texture of life in a few instances
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003
Whitney Museum of American Art

16 September 2003
Tom Thomson: painter and "Canadian legend"

5 August 2003
A major discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia

30 July 2003
The art of ancient Sumer
The Art of the First Cities at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City

19 July 2003
German artist Käthe Kollwitz at the Art Gallery of Ontario

5 July 2003
The art of making protest art

Interview with photographer Jason Murphy, participant in Art Against War

23 June 2003
Sydney Opera House architect wins major international award

30 May 2003
Andy Goldsworthy and the limits of working with nature
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, written and directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer

6 May 2003
Sale of Breton archives breaks up legacy of Surrealist movement

1 May 2003
A worthless attack on Goya
The Rape of Creativity by Jake and Dinos Chapman

21 April 2003
Leonardo da Vinci: the drawings and the public response

5 February 2003
An insightful view into an artist's world
Francis Bacon Studio at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

11 January 2003
Surrealist leader André Breton's archives up for auction

14 December 2002
The passion of the visual artist for the performing artist
"Degas and the Dance" at the Detroit Institute of Arts

2 August 2002
Artistic dissent in imperial China
When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) at the Metropolitan Museum

29 July 2002
Ground Zero exhibition in Detroit
Signs of a more critical mood among US artists

31 May 2002
The painter Jacob Lawrence

25 January 2002
Beautiful and fascinating--but not urgent?
Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures at the Asia Society in New York

11 January 2002
Apologetics for National Socialist aesthetics and politics
Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich

3 January 2002
A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
"Dreams and Nightmares" -- at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002

30 November 2001
A desire for what?
"Surrealism: Desire Unbound" -- An exhibition at Tate Modern, London until 1 January 2002

2 October 2001
Pessimism and the historical painter:
Leon Golub

20 September 2001
The rehabilitation of British artist Stanley Spencer

24 August 2001
Papunya Tula-the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art

16 June 2001
The Last of the Angry Penguins
An exhibition in memory of Australian painter John Perceval

14 May 2001
Inside Out--new Chinese art and the political conditions that produced it

2 May 2001
Goya's private albums: A unique exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London

26 March 2001
World Without End: Photography
and the 20th Century

Some rare photographs but a flawed approach

24 January 2001
Continuities and discontinuities in art
"Encounters, New Art From Old": A Millennium Exhibition at the National Gallery in London

10 January 2001
George Gittoes' World Diary reinforces media clichés

28 December 2000
Turner Prize awarded to Wolfgang Tillmans hailed as shift in focus

1 December 2000
William Blake: A radical visionary
William Blake: Tate Gallery, London, 9 November - 11 February 2001

10 November 2000
Political Art--what it mostly isn't, and what it could be
Protest & Survive at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until November 12

13 September 2000
A response to Millet
Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light
An exhibit at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

24 August 2000
The enigma of the baroque

21 July 2000
Art, museums and society
An interview with Jan van der Marck, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts

4 July 2000
Tate Modern: London's new gallery of twentieth century modern art

12 May 2000
Relaunching London's Tate Gallery--
RePresenting Britain 1500-2000
Mona Hatoum at the Tate Britain, Millbank, London

11 May 2000
Exhibition in Bielefield, Germany--
Kazimir Malevich: The Later Work
New insights into the work of Russian avant-garde artist

25 April 2000
Honoré Daumier, Intimate Contemporary

17 April 2000
Michelangelo to Matisse--Drawing the figure
A look at 500 years of figure drawing

24 March 2000
Then and now
1900: Art at the Crossroads
at the Royal Academy, London

23 March 2000
Science, art or carnival sideshow?
The "Human Body Worlds" exhibit in Cologne

20 March 2000
A vital and challenging exhibition
Viva la Vida --Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
29 January-30 April

3 March 2000
Walker Evans and photography

2 February 2000
"Witness": An important chapter in US history
New York photo exhibit on lynchings

5 January 2000
Striking visions of the First World War
CRW Nevinson: The Twentieth Century

29 December 1999
The rehabilitation of Gustav Gründgens
Gustav Gründgens --A German Career: an exhibition at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek

13 December 1999
A brave New World --not that you'd know it
Amazons of the avant-garde--an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London through February 6

1 December 1999
The humanity of Van Dyck

23 November 1999
The artistic and social significance of the Bauhaus
Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool

19 November 1999
A superb exhibit on militarism
Camouflage: An exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara

A conversation with Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara

5 November 1999
Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality

9 October 1999
Two master photographers from Japan

3 September 1999
Anger and form in the work of Ben Shahn

2 September 1999
Diego Rivera's artistic mastery

18 August 1999
Cindy Sherman Retrospective
An artist to be taken seriously

22 July 1999
Clarice Beckett Retrospective
The subtle work of a much-neglected Australian artist

14 July 1999
Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream
An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (June 1-August 22)

A supplementary point about the Moreau exhibit

29 June 1999
Fifty years of American art
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, April 23 to August 22, 1999

16 June 1999
The forging of a new art
"New Art for a New Era: Malevich's Vision of the Russian Avant-Garde." At the Barbican Centre, London

21 May 1999
Francisco Goya (1746-1828):
"Fantasy is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders"

14 May 1999
Kandinsky and the development of a visual language
Kandinsky--Watercolours and other works on paper: An exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until July 4

7 May 1999
Review: Emily Kame Kngwarreye retrospective Alhalkere--Paintings from Utopia
The Art of the "Dreaming"

1 April 1999
Face to face with the Spanish Revolution: A rare exhibition of photographs by Robert Capa

20 January 1999
Classic Cézanne: Art Gallery of NSW,
28 November 1998 to 28 February 1999
"One must see nature as no-one has seen it before"

21 November 1998
Double Happiness is a Warm Gun: Twenty paintings by Guo Jian
A biting critique of China in the 1990s

27 October 1998
A collection of rarely displayed images
Photography Review: Arcadia: nineteenth century Australian photography

1 October 1998
The enduring significance of the work of Max Ernst

25 September 1998
Striking images, but a misleading interpretation: Losing Ground by Donovan Wylie

22 September 1998
The Force of Giacometti--painter, sculptor

15 September 1998
Marc Chagall--Love and the Stage
Chagall's response to war and revolution

29 August 1998
Rodchenko's art and fate: the experiment continues

28 August 1998
Shouts from the Wall, an exhibit of Spanish Civil War posters:
Fascinating artifacts from a momentous struggle, and crude apologetics for Stalinism

25 August 1998
New Worlds From Old
Landscape and artistic development in new worlds

20 August 1998
Detroit authorities force dismantling
of art work

The last days of the Heidelberg Project

8 July 1998
A rare chance to see the recent works of Lucian Freud

27 June 1998
Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan Pictures of the 'floating world'

18 June 1998
Art Gallery of New South Wales acquires Braque's Le Verre d'Absinthe
A 'new artistic concept of space'

5 June 1998
The photographer Walter Rosenblum: Some kind of respect

12 May 1998
"Sluice Gates of the Mind" at Leeds Central Gallery
Groundbreaking exhibit on British Surrealism

17 April 1998
Photography review:
Paul Strand circa 1916
and
Robert Capa: Photographs

Taking pictures in the twentieth century

15 April 1998
New Toronto exhibit
A Look at Andy Warhol

21 March 1998
The photographs of Dorothea Lange
"To make the world a place for creation"

12 March 1998
Mathew Brady:
A great chronicler of the
American Civil War

5 May 1997
Detroit in ruins
Downtown Detroit: An American Acropolis

 

Features

11 May 2000
Exhibition in Bielefield, Germany--
Kazimir Malevich:
The Later Work

New insights into the work of Russian avant-garde artist

29 June 1999
Fifty years of American art
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, April 23 to August 22, 1999

 

 

 

 

 

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