During his (2005) Retrospective at the NGV, I met his Melbourne representative. She walked me through the gallery which exhibited his latest work. Pointing to a portrait of a freckled girl with sad eyes and pouting lips, she declared “This is his new model… isn’t she sublime!”. Then a group of school children marched [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Bill Henson: from under exposed to over exposed
Posted in Blogroll, Ethics, Humanity, art, tagged Add new tag on May 24, 2008 | 11 Comments »
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Yinxing Township Central Primary School,
Safe for the first time
四川大地震
Posted in Ethics on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Singing from the playground
fills an empty Beichuan sky,
The hardened troops
cheer like schoolboys
This one is alive!
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The men in white helmets
work without delay,
to reach a silenced cry
they heard on Saturday.
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“It’s coming from the birds”
says a man wiping dirt from his eyes,
It happened during school time,
“It’s only the birds!” he cries.
“We live in a rainbow of chaos”–Cezanne
Posted in World Issues, art on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) sold at Christie’s New York this week for $33.6 million. Making him the world’s most expensive living artist.
“I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be” [...]
Mothers Day (for some)
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, World Issues, tagged Add new tag on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
A child’s chance of celebrating a fifth birthday should not largely depend on the country or community where he or she is born. We need to do a better job of reaching the poorest children with basic health measures like vaccines, antibiotics and skilled care at childbirth. These simple measures… are not reaching millions of [...]
