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Exhibition: ‘Carine Thevenau: Return To Huldra’s Wood’ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 13th February – 9th March 2013 . Sometimes I just want to surround myself with objects that are beautiful, that give me pleasure in the act of looking. I just want to look at a...
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Review: ‘Andrew Curtis: Moonlight Mile’ at Blockprojects, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 6th February – 3rd March 2013 . This is a strong exhibition of large scale hybrid black and white photographs by Andrew Curtis at Blockprojects, Cremone. The photographs look grand in...
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Review: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGVA, National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . “My work is a reconstruction and reconstruction is a philosophical activity. If I can create a drama that has philosophical meaning, that’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Juergen Teller: Woo!’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
23rd January – 17th March 2013 . When the wall text introduction to an exhibition boldly states in the very first sentence, “Juergen Teller is one of the most important photographers of our time,” you...
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Video: ‘Marcus Bunyan – what makes a great photograph?’ at the Centre for...
Event date: Wednesday 5th December 2012 . Dr Marcus Bunyan, writer of the Art Blart blog and image maker, examines one of his favourite photographs – Alexander Gardner’s photograph of one of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Thomas Demand’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Sitting here in my non-airconditioned flat trying to survive Melbourne’s autumn heatwave is no fun; my mind has turned to mush. So instead of...
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Photographs: Anonymous motor vehicle wizbang thingamabobs
. A friend sent these to me and I thought you might enjoy them. He supplied nothing of the vehicle type, country, year, photographer, etc… so I have undertaken some judicious research and surmised the...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ’ at The Los Angeles County Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 21st October 2012 – 24th March 2013 . “The X Portfolio centers on men engaged in gay sex, including hard-core sadomasochism. The subject wasn’t entirely new. In Greek vase...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe’ at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los...
Exhibition dates: 23rd October 2012 – 24th March 2013 . One of the reasons for setting up Art Blart nearly five years ago was the idea of an exhibition archive – the cataloguing of the blog’s posts so...
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Exhibition: ‘Catherine Opie’ at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Exhibition dates: 23rd February – 29th March 2013 . In a nutshell: good presentation, good idea – just needs really good pictures. In fact the presentation is too good for the pictures, so in the end...
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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: ‘Primrose – Russian Colour Photography’ at Foam, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 25th January – 3rd April 2013 . A bumper posting on a fascinating subject. The portrait of Tolstoy is incredible; more poignant are the photographs pre-World War I (the last days of...
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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: ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’ at the Victoria and...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2012 – 7th April 2013 From the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum . A massive posting on a fascinating subject. I...
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Video: ‘InsideArt – Marcus Bunyan’ talks about the exhibition ‘Confounding:...
Published on 11th March 2013 . This week on InsideArt TV, Michel Lawrence talks with Dr Marcus Bunyan about the NGV’s intriguing photographic exhibition, ‘Confounding’, where the photographs exhibited...
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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: ‘Don McCullin: A Retrospective’ at the National Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 14th April 2013 . “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: Ignudi, 1994
. *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY- IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* . This series of photographs is a reconceptualisation of...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Centennial’ at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: 21st February – 27th April 2013 . What an admirable photographer Gordon Parks was. It is a joy to see five of his colour photographs in this posting because I have never seen any...
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Review: ‘Aliza Levi / Books on a White Background’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 10th April – 4th May 2013 . Aura of white Shadow of black Books for the boys * Black bodies out the back . . . * Books for the bourgeois * Books for the parlour * Books for the...
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