Ballet Russes, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, is packed with modern and folk art costumes, from medieval ball gowns and carnivalesque clowns. It’s a surreal and fascinating experience.
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Director of National Gallery of Australia surrenders his job — sort of
Ron Radford, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, made a bold announcement — if any of the graduates of the new Indigenous Arts Fellowship at the NGA wanted his job, they could have it.
Daily Proposition: A gift shop that makes an impression
Looking for a lovely way to pass an afternoon in our nation’s capital? May I suggest a sojourn to the “Masterpieces from Paris” exhibition. And if the queues are too long, there’s always the gift shop.
Political bite-sized meaty chunks
What do we read into this? … You don’t become a senior judge this way … Independent inquiry compromised?
Arts minister clears the decks: what does he know?
Ten emails in one day from the arts minister? Surely no coincidence, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Finally, Hank Ebes stops playing possum
For the past decade, Hank Ebes, the Melbourne Aboriginal art dealer who put Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong up for auction, has been deploring the fact that many of Australia’s most important indigenous art works have been going into private collections or sold to overseas buyers, writes Geoff Maslen.
National Gallery of Australia snares the Possum
The National Gallery of Australia last night paid $2.4 million for Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s huge painting Warlugulong at a Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne, writes Geoff Maslen.
