Saturday, 16 July 2016

Chile - Australia

Juan Dávila  exhibition:
Centro Cultural Matucana 100
Av. Matucana N° 100 Estación Central, Santiago - Chile

Juan Dávila, Ralco, 2016. Oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

UNESCO World Heritage Sites
announced 16 July 2016
Link
Include:

Ani- capital of the Armenian kingdom in the 10th century


 Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape: 5th century B.C., Zuojiang Huashon rock art cultural landscape straddles steep cliffs in southwest China and represent the only trace left of the Luoyue people.













Nan Madol, Micronesia  Made of basalt and coral boulders, the 99 artificial islets of Nan Madol are home to ruins ranging from temple to tombs dating between A.D. 1200 and 1500.

Friday, 15 July 2016

Nice

Bastille Day attack in Nice | 14 July 2016 |

Weather forecast 16 July 2016
Nice overcome with grief 
















Friday, 26 February 2016

Malevich

Malevich Black Square at The State Tretyakov Gallery
here
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Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich
Black Suprematic Square
1915
oil on canvas
79,5 х 79,5

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Shanghai report

Met some terrific people and heard some stimulating presentations at the 3rd FASIC conference convened by Professor David Walker and supported by the Foundation for Australian Studies in China  and hosted by East China Normal University

Links here to some of the speakers
Dr Mei-fen Kuo is interviewed here on ABC radio about the Kuo-Min Tang in Australia



Dr Nilanjana Deb from Jadavpur University is a member of Project E-qual. This is her (old) blog Subaltern Literatures

Exhibition of photographs in London in November made in 1870s and '80s by Thomas Child, part of Asia Art in London


Shanghai street (c) Helen Idle


Monday, 2 November 2015

Documenta 14

For Documenta 14 ( 2017)  South as a State of Mind Magazine is publishing a number of issues here is Issue 1






Friday, 16 October 2015

Ahmed Basiony

Links for research
Ahmed Basiony (1978-2011) Egyptian sound and visual artist killed in Tahrir Square Cairo on 28 January 2011
Link to film about his work here
Represented Egypt at Venice in 2011 30 Days of Running in the Space 
Video interview with curators and clip of Tahrir Square in days before he was killed

Monday, 5 October 2015

Hell is other people


Paola Totaro interviews Grayson Perry on the occasion of his exhibition in Sydney at MCA where the white ceramacist reasserts his Eurocentricity
<i>The Rosetta Vase</i> combines classicism with social commentary.
The Rosetta Vase combines classicism with social commentary. Photo: Kate Peters

Grayson Perry- My Pretty Little Art Career at the MCA Sydney from 10 Dec 2015 to 1 May 2016

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