Art market - a view

Ralph Hobbs of nanda\hobbs gallery King St Sydney
An insider's observation

Armenia

24 and 25 April 1915
Armenia | Australia | Ottoman

Australia's Armenian story
by Vicken Babkenian & Judith Crispin
Inside Story

'Australia has had a long relationship with Armenia and its people. But since Australia also has a Turkish past – because Gallipoli in Turkey is such an important part of Australia’s understanding of the place of the first world war in our history – it also needs to come to terms with what happened to the people of Armenia during and after that conflict.'

This is an extract from The Honest History Book, edited by David Stephens and Alison Broinowski, published this month by NewSouth.

Sydney Biennale 2018

Mami Kataoka- director
“The biennale is a great opportunity for me to rethink or to look at the world of today, geographically, and also historically,” Kataoka said. “We are really living in a time [in which] multiple, plural values are colliding and competing. How can we see this from a bigger perspective?”
Announcement re artists included
16 March to 11 June 

Read Haraway

'Read the fucking book' says Ben Denham

"thinking one thinking practice at a time will get us no-where, but the job is to build contact zones that matter" (DJH)

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
by Donna J. Haraway
(Duke University Press, Sept 2016)

On John Berger

Ben Lerner
Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017
The New Yorker

Read Confabulations (Penguin Random House, 2016)
review by Kate Kallaway: 'People forget that Berger is funny. And curious. And that he listens – how he listens.'

Berger: “The way I observe comes naturally to me as a curious person – I’m like la vigie – the lookout guy on a boat who does small jobs, maybe such as shovelling stuff into a boiler, but I’m no navigator – absolutely the opposite. I wander around the boat, find odd places – the masts, the gunwale – and then simply look out at the ocean. Being aware of travelling has nothing to do with being a navigator.”

Canada | Universities | Indigenous Knowledges

Implementation of courses with Indigenous content in some Canadian universities
Madison Ranta, The Charleton

Laura Fisher: Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment

Review article

'Sheer Pleasure' by

Tim Rowse

Sydney Review of Books 28 March, 2017

'Her book is a superb demonstration of the value of Bourdieu’s concept of field in describing a sensibility as complex as settler-colonial auto-critique.'

 

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment
by Laura Fisher
Anthem Press
312pp
Published May, 2016
ISBN 9781783085316

 

 

'Like any tightrope walker, Laura Fisher has a finely attuned sense of balance. Her clear-sighted analysis of the historical record takes her beyond the moral high ground and ideological posturing that for decades have stifled intelligent discussion of the mixed blessings of Aboriginal art’s success. This book should be essential reading for anyone to whom Indigenous art is more than a just a pretty picture.'

—Vivien Johnson, former NewSouth Global Professor, University of New South Wales and author of 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists'

http://www.anthempress.com/aboriginal-art-and-australian-society 

A photograph never stands alone: Teju Cole

'All images, regardless of the date of their creation, exist simultaneously and are pressed into service to help us make sense of other images. This suggests a possible approach to photography criticism: a river of interconnected images wordlessly but fluently commenting on one another.'

'A photograph can’t help taming what it shows. We are accustomed to speaking about photographs as though they were identical to their subject matter. But photographs are also pictures — organized forms on a two-dimensional surface — and they are part of the history of pictures. A picture of something terrible will always be caught between two worlds: the world of “something terrible,” which might shock us or move us to a moral response, and the world of “a picture,” which generates an aesthetic response. The dazzle of art and the bitterness of life are yoked to each other. There is no escape.'

Teju Cole, The New York Times Magazine 14 March 2017

Australian women Impressionist artists

Jane Sutherland

The mushroom gatherers (c 1895), oil on canvas, 41.8 x 99.3cm

Iso Rae 1860 -1940
Australian War Museum

A Devil, Étaples (1915) 42.4 x 26.7cm
L: charcoal and pastel on grey paper.
R:coloured chalks and watercolour on brown paper

Dinosaur prints

Huge dinosaur footprints found near Broome
Ben Collins, ABC Kimberley 27 March 2017

• A number of 1.7m-long dinosaur footprints have been found north of Broome
• The dinosaur that left the prints was the largest member of the sauropods, which includes dinosaurs such as the brontosaurus
• The area was a large river delta 130 million years ago, with dinosaurs crossing wet sandy areas

Richard Hunter lies next to a 1.7m dinosaur footprint belonging to a sauropod.

(Supplied: Steve Salisbury)

Katherine Routledge

Links
The Mystery of Easter Island
https://archive.org/details/mysteryofeaster00rout

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ph.D.
Writing Routledge: Her Field Notes and Their Value to Science

 http://www.eisp.org/818/