Winter
Today is the beginning of winter, and with the rain and current local temperature at 9 degrees, the season is announcing its presence. The National Gallery of Victoria has many …
Angelology
Angels often capture the public’s imagination. Back in the 1980s, as part of the New Age Movement, there was a resurgence in ‘angel awareness’ and angelology. ‘A Book of Angels’, …
A saint for our times
On this week’s ‘The Religion and Ethics Report’ on ABC Radio National, there was an interview with American author Tara Isabella Burton. The interview can be streamed on the ABC …
Charles Samuel Keene
I doubt that any of us are familiar with Charles Samuel Keene and his art practice. So, I imagine that it would come as a great surprise to discover that …
Hugh Ramsay
A big thank you to Margie Richardson for her thoughts on the Hugh Ramsay exhibition at the National Gallery in Canberra. Margie writes: “One of my favourite Australian artists is …
Painting Edo
As we contemplate the world from our distant positions, one can recall the long period of distance that Japan experienced during the Edo period from around 1600 to 1868. In …
In absentia
Another Sunday and another ‘in depth’ look at a painting in The Frick Collection with curator Xavier Salomon. This time Salomon discusses Henry Clay Frick’s favourite artwork, Velázquez’ portrait of …
Work for artists: A Depression Era project with relevance today
Today’s informative and extremely interesting post is from Jill Dwyer. Jill writes: Our cultural institutions across the country are closed in response to the current pandemic; and artists, particularly performance …
Synaesthesia
If you were going to have a superpower what would it be? Would it be invisibility? Or the ability to read other’s thoughts? Or would you want to be able …
Not the plague again …
In my inbox this week I received an email with the title ‘Get your public art pitch ready with $5k funding from Test Sites Online’. It appears that the City …