How being blind became a "gift" for author Barbara Blackman

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Apr 2016
From anyone else it might have seemed a little brusque or peremptory but, as I quickly learn, a gleeful sense of mischief is never far away when talking to the 87-year-old grand dame of Australian art, literature and music ... among them the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Her tastes in music are wide-ranging from jazz to contemporary classical....

How being blind became a "gift" for artist and author Barbara Blackman

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
From anyone else it might have seemed a little brusque or peremptory but, as I quickly learn, a gleeful sense of mischief is never far away when talking to the 87-year-old grand dame of Australian art, literature and music ... among them the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Her tastes in music are wide-ranging from jazz to contemporary classical....

'A rare privilege': artist Ben Quilty's heartfelt ode to Cold Chisel

Edit The Guardian 06 Apr 2016
... the song Khe Sahn for a 2006 exhibition called Art of Music, in which 18 famous Australian songs were interpreted by 18 artists to raise money for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy ... He also gave a nod to controversial recent changes in Australian arts funding policy, which were recently described by national arts leader Michael Lynch as “a disgrace”....

Australian artist Kerrie Lester dies after two-year battle with cancer

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 05 Apr 2016
Over thirty years contributing to Australian art and exhibiting her works, Lester was selected as a finalist for the Archibald competition 23 times ... and a huge contribution to Australian art....

Bill Henson takes aim at Australia's contempt for culture

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 02 Apr 2016
One of Australia's most important artists, Bill Henson, has taken aim at the state of the Australian art market and what he sees as a national contempt for culture ... The biggest sign of what he says is a complete lack of concern for culture is the destruction wrought on the art market by the former Labor government's decision to discourage self-managed super funds from collecting works of art....

Frontières: 'Amsterdam Gothic' attracts Belgian co-pro partner

Edit Screen Daily 02 Apr 2016
Amsterdam Gothic tells the story of Australian art historian Robin Taylor who travels to Amsterdam to take part in a restoration project, which she hopes will distract her from the tragic death of her first love....

Bill Henson on Hellenic treasures, escaping to the past and the Cultural Cringe

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Apr 2016
Henson's personal dissatisfaction is mild compared with his disenchantment at the state of the Australian art market and what he sees as a national contempt for culture, but more of that later ... His No.1 sign of a complete lack of concern for culture is the destruction wrought on the Australian art market by the former Labor government's decision to discourage self-managed super funds from collecting works of art....

New Senior Curator of Art (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Mar 2016
Mary comes to TMAG from Adelaide, where she was the Director of the South Australian School of Art Gallery at the University of South Australia for almost ten years. She studied at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart, and has worked in the Australian art sector for twenty years, holding curatorial, arts management and academic ......

Ken Done: sell-out, one-hit wonder, or Australia’s most underrated artist?

Edit The Guardian 29 Mar 2016
But he still battles the prejudices of the Australian art establishment ... Despite his success in those competitions, a former curator of Australian art at the National Gallery of Australia, John McPhee, once told Fairfax Done was “not considered good enough” and said “his paintings are about charm – there’s no doubt about that....

Kelly gang 'hidden treasure' challenged by experts

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 26 Mar 2016
So went the warnings to Lawson's, one of the country's oldest auction houses, a week before its February 25 Australian history sale ... Lawson's was expecting at least $10,000, for what one art historian called "a shit picture" ... Although Mr Thompson told Fairfax that Collard appeared in McCulloch's Encyclopedia​ of Australian Art, no reference was found during an inspection of its four editions. ....

Jan Senbergs: Observation - Imagination at the National Gallery of Victoria

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Mar 2016
Now aged in his mid-70s, Jan Senbergs has been one of the towering giants in the Australian art scene for more than half a century ... Serving a long apprenticeship in commercial screen-printing, Senbergs in the 1960s started to exhibit his fine art screen prints that, in retrospect, have been viewed as some of the most amazing screen prints in the history of Australian art....

Art history group started

Edit Taipei Times 25 Mar 2016
The Taiwan Art History Association was launched yesterday in Taipei to increase the nation’s research on art history and promote exchanges with the international community in the field ... Liao said he and Australian art lecturer Sophie McIntyre were chosen as the panel’s hosts by French event organizer Comite International d’Histoire de l’Art, but that he was later replaced by two staff members of China’s Palace Museum....

It's not too late: ArtsPeak pens open letter to Malcolm Turnbull

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Mar 2016
Winikoff believes up to half may lose their operational funding, a "devastating blow for contemporary Australian artists who depend on these organisations to bring their work to the public" ... ​In 2015, the Australia Council had its budget cut by $105 million over four years to bankroll Catalyst, a new Australian arts and culture fund administered by the Federal Arts Ministry....
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