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Exhibition review: Looking at Looking – The Photographic Gaze

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

Dear Dad I stand in NGV’s photography exhibition gallery, facing a whole wall studded with 20 pictures from Bill Henson’s Untitled 1980-1982 series. Forget silhouettes of girlish nudes, over which the Melbourne artist incurred public wrath some three years ago. Here, crowds in Melbourne from 30 years past appear to … Continue reading →

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Exhibition review: Deep Water

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

Dear Dad Mystique permeates Deep Water, National Gallery of Victoria’s small yet imperious photography exhibition, wafting through the gallery like a vapourised presence. With just 38 pieces (drawn from the Gallery’s own collection), the presentation seems to grip visitors with a silent and intense … Continue reading →

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Exhibition review: Vienna Art and Design

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Dear Dad To anyone who thinks what was avant garde more than a century ago must surely be archaic today, think again. Vienna: Art and Design, a magnificent exhibition of more than 250 works at the NGV International, demonstrates how close the aesthetic world … Continue reading →

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