NGV International, NGV Australia – Autumn Winter Shows 2019
Winter Masterpieces Exhibition: Terracotta Warriors + Cai Guo-Qiang, will be presented at the National Gallery of Victoria during its Autumn-Winter Season, 2019
Visual Arts
Christmas Gifts vs Experiences List – by Carolyn McDowall
Christmas is a good time to reflect on the gifts we give whether object or pleasure and question will what we choose offer more than momentary pleasure, or more
Happy New Year – Happiness, Prosperity and Good Luck!
Around the world in different cultures everyone at New Year looks forward to a fresh start with the prospect of enjoying happiness, prosperity and good luck
Merry Xmas, Happy Times Ahead – Festive Summertime Australia
It’s Summertime in Australia in the festive season so if you are visiting from interstate or overseas slap on your 30+ sunscreen and a hat and get out and about
Christmas Gifts: Celebrating Life – Giving Joy All Year Long
Christmas that great festival of love is nearly here and so it’s time to pause and reflect on the gifts we give – will they provide more than momentary pleasure
Love: Art of Emotion – A Desirable Event, NGV International
Now showing at NGV International, Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800, helps us to ’… reconcile the two parts of our being, the physical and the intellectual’
Mandy Martin: Homeground – Art, Between Nature and Industry
Rose Niland reviews twenty artworks by Mandy Martin, which represent her practice for the past twenty years and are on show in regional galleries of NSW in 2017
Treasures from Versailles – An Encounter of the Richest Kind
Visiting Canberra to view the Treasures from Versailles at the National Gallery of Australia, on my way to Sydney for Xmas, was an encounter of the richest kind
South Africa: The Art of a Nation – The British Museum
The British Museum at London’s new exhibition South Africa: The Art of a Nation traces the evolution of South Africa and its people through 100,000 years of art
The Frick Collection, New York – Abraham, Angels & Rembrandt
The Frick Collection will offer an exhibition from May 2017 surrounding an illuminating work by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, Abraham Entertaining the Angels
AA&ADA 2015 Sydney Antiques Fair – Be Beguiled
AA&ADA 2015 Sydney Antiques Fair will take place 9 – 13 September 2015 in the Kensington Room Randwick Racecourse Sydney, offering a variety of art and antiques
Antiques & Art: Part 1 – Understanding Art
Holding both the terms ‘antiques and art’ up for re-examination once more is important because they are far removed from periods in history that gave them birth
Andrea Palladio Architect – In Pursuit of the Perfect House
Despite evolving societies and technology a villa remains a place where one can dwell “under the tent of heaven”. Is Andrea Palladio’s villa the perfect house?
Fashion – Is It More Than a Frock asks Carolyn McDowall?
Costume encompasses all that we wear and today reflects a society in which privacy has been stripped bare – so what is fashion, is it more than a frock?
The Mirror – Mastering Reflection or Eye Catching Deception
Described as the ‘matrix of the symbolic’ the Mirror has accompanied the human quest to know and understand our own identity… who is the fairest of them all?
Towers – Symbols of Hope and Freedom
Prior to the twentieth century towers were built as symbols to the heights of material wealth and prosperity the western world had yet achieved.