Some of Bathus’s paintings are currently being exhibited at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The exhibition, Time Suspended. Paintings and Drawings 1932 to 1960, is showing until November 2007. Although there is a disparity of a better part of a century, I imagine his paintings will be received in much the same way by today’s [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Balthus: an obsessional attraction to very young girls
Posted in art on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
DROMKEEN—Book Week
Posted in art on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Visit to Dromkeen The home of the Australian Children’s Literature Collection, a unique collection of original artwork, manuscripts and other pre-publication material from Australian children’s books.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Posted in art on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.”
Or well that ends well…
Posted in art on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Down and Out in Paris and London. 1933. George Orwell. … I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. (200 pages later after the cruelest conditions of grossly underpaid labor,freezing nights and starvation) …Still I can point to one or two things I have definitely learned by being hard [...]
Oh My Gogh !!
Posted in art on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh The National Gallery of Victoria says it willl continue to display Head of a Man despite the revelation that the painting is not by legendary impressionist Vincent Van Gogh, as thought for more than 60 years.
