HYMN TO BEAUTY
THE ART OF UTAMARO

13 February – 2 May 2010
Art Gallery Of New South Wales

Whether depictions of high-ranked courtesans, diligent housewives, affectionate mothers or passionate lovers, the prints of Japanese artist, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) have delighted audiences for over 200 years.

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WILDERNESS
BALNAVES CONTEMPORARY PAINTING: PAINTING
5 March – 23 May 2010

Wilderness, a new exhibition, will bring together fourteen of Australia’s best contemporary painters, including Del Kathryn Barton, Daniel Boyd, Tony Clark, Louise Hearman, Mary Scott, Michael Zavros and Fiona Lowry, to consider how nature and landscape are as entwined in our minds, memories and imaginations as as they are in any empirical fact.

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Tuesday 2 March – Sunday 6 June 2010

ACMI – Australian Centre For The Moving Image
Open daily 10am – 6pm
Free exhibition > Gallery 2

Go behind-the-scenes of the marvellous miniature world of Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max.

Oscar®-winning director and writer Adam Elliot in collaboration with ACMI, has developed a unique exhibition from the plasticine world of Mary and Max (2009), the chronicle of an unlikely pen-pal friendship between lonely eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle and Max Jerry Horowitz, who has Asperger Syndrome and loves chocolate hot dogs.

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Thursday 12 November 2009 – Sunday 25 April 2010

ACMI – Australian Centre For The Moving Image
Open daily 10am – 6pm
Full $17 Concession $12
Family $50 (2 adults, 2 children) Each extra child $8
Book tickets online

View trailer
Take a tour through the exhibition
Watch the video introduction by Dennis Hopper
See the photos from opening night

Special exhibition events

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SYDNEY, March 19/20, 2010 @ Sydney Convention & Exhibition Center

• View List of Speakers, [ here ]
• View Program, [ here ]
• Purchase Tickets, [ here ]

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8 years / 22 events/ 7 cities/ 4 countries/ 143 speakers/ 35,000 attendees/ 11 event books/ 25 exhibitions/ 22 after parties

You are probably thinking one of two things right now. Either “Who or what exactly is Semi-Permanent?” or “Oh, it’s those Semi-Permanent guys, I’ve heard of them.” For the sake of this About section we are going to assume you’re part of the former, mainly to cover our arse and to make sure you get a good understanding of what the event is, even if you have already heard of us.

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5 December 2009 – 7 March 2010
Focus Room – Art Gallery of New South Wales

In May 1955 a group of six Australian photographers showed some 200 photographs in an exhibition held at David Jones Gallery in Sydney. The artists were Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant and David Potts. It was a key exhibition in representing a shift away from the traditions of pictorialism to the recording of contemporary life.

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17 February – 06 June

Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards “the Oscars of the design world” showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world.

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Exhibition to Open in Spring 2012

New York, NY… The New Museum announces the appointment of Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, as the next curator of “The Generational,” which will open in the spring of 2012. “The Generational,” the New Museum’s signature Triennial, is an important showcase for emerging artists from around the world. The first edition of the Triennial “Younger than Jesus”opened in the spring of 2009, and included work by fifty artists from twenty-five countries all under the age of thirty-three.

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Photocollages Reveal Wit and Whimsy of the Victorian Era in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Opening February 2

* February 2–May 9, 2010
* Press Preview: Monday, February 1, 10 a.m.–noon

In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage. Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 2 – May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon.

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January 31, 2010 to May 16, 2010

For more than two decades artist David Mecalco has sold hand-painted devotional images (retablos) from a stall in Mexico City’s La Lagunilla Sunday antiques fair (commonly referred to as the Thieves’ Market).

In recent years these vibrant works—pulsing with images of the Virgin Mary, the devil, skeletons, animals, petitioners, and more—have brought him international recognition.

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