Masterpieces From Paris

By Karen Finch 01/20/10


Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond: Post-Impressionism from the Musée d’Orsay National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The advance publicity campaign for this blockbuster exhibition branded it as the most expensive ever mounted by the Australian National Gallery. In this land of football, where vast amounts of money are spent promoting games, players and special events, it is very interesting to watch the effect on the public of a major art event being advertised across main stream media. The response since it opened from a public that is queuing on a daily basis long before the gallery doors open at 10.00am, argues that beneath the sporting culture of the nation, there is a yearning for cultural breadth that comes via popularising art, music and theatre.

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Cultures Mix at APT6

By Noortje Hoogzaad 12/09/09
The Gallery of Modern Art and the Queensland Art Gallery will host more than 100 contemporary artists from twenty-five countries for the sixth edition of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) from December 5, 2009 through April 5, 2010. The APT is the Queensland Art Gallery’s flagship international contemporary art event – a multicultural exhibition. Established in 1993, it is the only major series of exhibitions in the world to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific, and Australia. This sixth exhibition will feature cinematic programming, gallery and artists’ talks, lectures and symposiums and three groundbreaking presentations.

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Image Credits: Zhu Weibing, Ji Wenyu | People holding flowers (detail) 2007

Building the Artist’s Brand

By Lawrence Mathews 11/05/09 Read More >> Similar Articles >>

Part 1: Brand Image The business of art is unique in many ways but the basic rules of marketing still apply. An artist’s success, and, by extension, a gallery’s success, is very dependent on reputation and public perception. Reputation and public perception are created by focusing on, and maintaining, a consistent brand identity. Next week… Part 2: Developing the artist’s critical reputation Image Credits: Image courtesy of Deloney Newkirk Galleries - Confrontation I by SPENCER FIDLER, Print - Intaglio, 46 x 58.5 inches

Gallery Spotlight: Michael Rosenthal Gallery

Upcoming Exhibit
Lapidary Terrarium Mary Conrad
November 07 - December 12, 2009
Reception: November 7th, 4pm – 9pm

Michael Rosenthal is pleased to present Lapidary Terrarium, Mary Conrad’s San Francisco debut exhibition of installation works, paintings, and drawings. In this show, Conrad explores the concept of Lapidary Terrarium as the specialized and expertly crafted social and environmental spaces in which we enclose ourselves. Acting as an anthropologist, Conrad mediates a banal and strange world to examine the historical and social impacts on our shared consciousness of language, signs, currency and packaging. Sharing the same title as the exhibition, the large installation in the center of the gallery looms gallantly over and illuminates everyday objects and materials to suggest that there are other uses and meanings behind the mundane. Conrad takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to her art making that mirrors her academic background in literature and architecture, yielding results of poetic prowess.

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