Installation Art A gallery of "seismique" proportions! Today we travel to Houston, Texas to experience the lastest in immersive, interactive lightshows. Image: Seismique.com
Galleries Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Come with us today to the Opening of one of Australia's best regional galleries in the northeast of New South Wales. You can join in the Official Opening of the Margaret Olley Art Centre.
Galleries HOTA – Home Of The Arts – on the Gold Coast The Gold Coast near Brisbane is home to a new gallery opened in 2021 named HOTA – Home Of The Arts, its Rubik-cube shaped building provides a splash of colourful along the river front.
Collector The Beauty of the Australian Outback with Hugh Schulz One of the members of the AnArt4Life team is an art collector of Australian Outback paintings - predominantly Hugh Schulz who was one of the Brushmen of the Bush. Today we are treated to some of Andrew's new acquisitions.
Exhibition Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin: Collectors of the Parisian Avant-garde by Hannah Starman Nov 2021 With permission from Arteez we post an interview by Hannah Starman with art historian Natalia Semenova about Ivan Morozov & Sergei Shchukin: Collectors of the Parisian Avant-garde.
Unbridled Unwrapping Egyptian Mummies I was fascinated by this painting - Examination of a Mummy by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux. I could see a mummy was being unravelled, but who were the beautifully dressed ladies on the left taking a keen interest in the proceedings? Image Credit: Public Domain/ArtMight
Museum Lego model - City of Pompeii During my visit of the Chau Chak Wing Museum located in the grounds of the University of Sydney, children gathered around a Lego model of the city of Pompeii Image Credit: Photo by Craig Barker - Nicholson Museum
Multimedia An alternative view of nature: "Quantum memories" Imagine a project using complex algorithms of data sets made up of millions of images of nature to build an alternative view, a different "reality." The result is spellbindingly beautiful.... Image: Julie's photo.
Women Artists Monica Adams - Australian Artist When looking for coffee on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, I discovered the "Monicaart Gallery" and some inspirational images created by Monica Adams. Meeting an artist in their own environment is always exciting and stimulating and brings the art works alive. Image: monicaart.com.au
Sculpture Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone; emigrated to Australia in 1972; studied economic history before enrolling at art school in Melbourne. She works with sculpture, video, drawing, installation & digital prints. Images: vancouverbiennale.com; flickr.
Mailbag Mail Bag: Mainly Galleries Today's mail bag includes: a statue of a postman in Tenerife (photo by Desiree Martin; a farewell to Tansy Curtin curatorial manager at Bendigo Art Gallery; & on-line gallery visits to the National Portrait Gallery London & Erin Hanson's studio.
Galleries Dunedin Public Art Gallery Dunedin, which was settled by the Scottish in 1848 and named after the old Gaelic name for Edinburgh. In 1865, gold was discovered and with it an influx of, soon to become rich, new settlers from Italy, Ireland, France, Germany and China. The Dunedin Art Gallery.
Travel Munch Visit the Munch Gallery and view the works of Edvard Munch (11863–1944) w a Norwegian Painter whose best known work, "The Scream" has become one of the most iconic images of world art.
Conservation and Restoration The Future of Modern Restorations? The restoration of The Night Watch by Rembrandt is being undertaken at the Rijksmuseum. The restoration will take place in full view of the public.
The Moon To the Moon and Back via Geelong Art Gallery "Moon" paintings from Geelong Art Gallery- works by Kiyochika Kobayashi, Arthur Streeton, Charles Blackman, Clarice Beckett, William Hunter, Janet Dawson, Walter Withers, Godfrey Miller.
Galleries A New Gold Nugget for Bendigo Welcoming Jessica Bridgfoot as Director of the Bendigo Art Gallery and talking about discovering artistic gold nuggets in Bendigo including some original wallpapers.
Galleries Margaret Olley - Home and Studio Margaret Olley lived in Paddington, a converted hat factory and adjoining terrace house. Suffering from ill health in her latter years, she spent a lot of time at home, continuing to paint prolifically, usually from compositions she created there. Credit: my own photo.
Performing Arts Jane of Sandringham Jane of Sandringham who has now joined as a writer on the blog tells us a little about herself and her interests in the ballet, opera, impressionist and post impressionist paintings.
