Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre,
Melbourne Museum,
Nicholson St, Carlton, Victoria.
$0 to $15 (included with Museum entry)
until 4 Feb 2018,
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art
How’s your commute?
Check out Jan Verbeek’s On A Wednesday night in Tokyo, 2004 – along with 40 years of German avant garde television – at the wonderful – ubuweb – All avant-garde. All the time.
Odysseus at the front bar
This looks so much better on my site – come visit
or view the PDF here…
it should be about something.
like love Continue reading
Landscape with the fall of Icarus
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Because I couldn’t get
to the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,
given the flights
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Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
until 10 September 2017
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
free (yes really)
This major exhibition surveys the contemporary practice of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, responding to the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum (1). The curator Tina Baum has done a fantastic job to bring together both emerging and more established artists from around Australia. Continue reading
Archibald and serendipity
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize, 2017
Art Gallery of NSW – $18 adult, $16 concession, $14 members
29 Jul – 22 Oct 2017 and then to regional centres.
Now in its 96th year, the $100,000 Archibald Prize for the ‘best’ portrait painting has been settled. Continue reading
Viewing mind-altering art (Guernica, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain)
Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel (Penguin, 2003) has a chapter on mind-altering art. He uses the example of Vincent van Gogh’s time in Provence to show how great art can help us come to see things differently. Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 