- Power in the abstract (31 Dec 06)
Yesterday to the National Gallery. I was delighted by the new arrangement of the main galleries with new lighting -- especially the South and Southeast Asian galleries. We saw Grace Crowley: ...
- Queer John (10 Jun 06)
The current hoo-hah about The Da Vinci Code has stimulated me to learn something about Leonardo. This is his St. John the Baptist c.1513-1516 from the Louvre. To our eyes ...
- Sacrifice, photographs and Zen (31 May 06)
The National Gallery of Australia is staging a travelling exhibition of work by Michael Riley (1960-2004) of the Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi people. Riley was one of Australia's "most important contemporary Indigenous visual ...
- The Gap (08 Apr 06)
Australia's most feted (and often controversial) art prize is the Archibald prize for portraiture. But the oldest major art prize is the Wynne prize. This year's Wynne prizewinner is John ...
- Arresting Constable (27 Mar 06)
Recently we saw the NGA's Constable: Impressions of Land Sea and Sky. The show has only a small number of John Constable's large pictures including Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's ...
- The vast open sky (03 Mar 06)
The National Gallery of Australia recently acquired this untitled 1977 55cm x 75cm landscape by Fred Williams (1927-1982) Australia's finest C20th landscape painter. It depicts the low rounded hills ...
- A true treasure (02 Jan 06)
At the National Library yesterday we saw Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries which is also represented in a fine online exhibition. As a travelling exhibition it is modest in scale ...
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