I wasted my Saturday talking to friends and thinking about fear and the future. It was wasted preparing for Sunday, when I helped sew my quilt. I wasted it wandering through a gallery looking at art. I dallied over my lunch in the city as I people-watched. For this wasted day I marveled at the … Continue reading I wasted a day
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Review: Loving Vincent
The Melbourne International Film Festival is on and of everything on offer I have managed to see one film. But it was a good one: Loving Vincent at the Forum Theatre. Twas three sittings to a sell out crowd, if that indicates the interest in this. To understand this work is a stunning creative and … Continue reading Review: Loving Vincent
Review: Buddha’s Smile
If you are going to see the exquisite Hokusai showcase at the National Gallery of Victoria, or even if you aren't, the temporary exhibit Buddha's Smile is worth a look, and a listen. I'm not suggesting a direct link between the exhibits, by the way or even a broad, 'let's lump all the Asian art … Continue reading Review: Buddha’s Smile
Review: Dreamland Japan
The National Gallery of Victoria is currently exhibiting more than 150 works of art (prints, books, manga, cloth items etc) by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Even if you haven't heard of him, you may know one of his pictures, because it is now one of the most famous and reproduced scenes in the world: … Continue reading Review: Dreamland Japan
Imperfect articles
If you've been visiting a while then you may recall me wittering on about a sketchbook. Well, my latest effort has been uploaded for perusal online at The Sketchbook Project. Some of the pencil sketches haven't come up so clearly, but hey, my little book of pictures is in the world. And it turns out … Continue reading Imperfect articles
Review: Love in art
The usual blockbuster events gain all the attention for the National Gallery of Victoria, and like cosmic detritus around a black hole, all are pulled by way of its gravitational attraction. And this is no bad thing, so go see Vincent van Gogh and the Four Seasons if you can. What these starry-eyed fans may … Continue reading Review: Love in art
Review: A brush with Vincent
The National Gallery of Victoria winter masterpiece exhibition this year is Vincent van Gogh and the Four Seasons (on now). I finally got to visit on a particularly sombre, grey Melbourne Friday afternoon. Last year the big exhibit was Degas. It was interesting. I recognised familiar paintings of the usual suspects, admired paintings I'd not … Continue reading Review: A brush with Vincent
Summer of Sundays +
It's finished and submitted and sitting in a Brooklyn art library, but it took ages to decide what to do for my second Sketchbook Project. It's about that most obvious of all lame art anxieties - that of the blank page. And, also about being 'good.' Sigh, or better. Thus I had almost a year … Continue reading Summer of Sundays +
Month of Sundays
The Drop by Drawing class on Sundays at the National Gallery of Victoria concluded. I miss it already. Last Sunday wasn't the same. For one, there was foster kittens, but mainly, I missed arting about. However, I can safely say my month of Sundays was a revelation. It's provided an official sanction, or permission for two … Continue reading Month of Sundays
No one view
Tis said there is only one view of Sydney, a vista that encompasses the Harbour, the harbour's old coat hanger of a bridge and the Opera House. Of course they are much-loved and instantly identifiable everywhere, even if our Prime Minister is not so much. Melbourne, meanwhile, has no single view. No one image sums … Continue reading No one view
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