#National Gallery of Australia

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Richard Serra (1938-2024)

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(image: Daniel Freeman (photograph), Richard Serra drawing on a lithographic plate, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA, 1972. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Gift of Kenneth Tyler. © Daniel Freeman)

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In the Morning, Alpes Maritimes from Antibes, John Russell, 1890-91

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China Bust 80

Artist: Ah Xian

National Gallery of Australia

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Triptych (1970), Francis Bacon

📍National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

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Image: Heracles and the Nymphs of Himera painting by Rupert Bunny, Australian, 1913 or 1916, held by National Gallery of Australia.

Note: An obscure myth but so refreshing with Heracles being restored during or after his labours.

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Further reading:

Hyperallergic: The Charges Against a Notorious Suspected Smuggler of Indian Artifacts, August 19, 2019

Hyperallergic: US Authorities Seized 13 Looted Asian Artifacts From Yale University, April 6, 2022

Hyperallergic: Disgraced Art Dealer Subhash Kapoor Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence, November 3, 2022

Hyperallergic: Looted Antiquities Seized by DA Belonged to Met Trustee, December 2, 2022

Hyperallergic: 1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers, March 20, 2023

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Some highlights from the Cressida Campbell exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia

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I went to the Jeffrey Smart Exhibition yesterday - 1/5/22. It was celebrating his 100 year anniversary of birth and the first time I saw a particularly large collection of his works together - enough that you could see the progression in stylistic technique.

It was cool to see the oil barrels in person when I've often seen the print at my parents' home, hanging next to the TV.

It was also cool to learn a little more about his friendship with David Malouf - a writer I studied at uni and dear friend who curated a small exhibition of Smart's works at USyd shortly after his death. Also his friendship with Germaine Greer. Both Greer and Malouf have portraits in Smart's collection.

But while I was wandering around, I couldn't help but think how utterly absurd it was that I was there paying to see those artworks, painted by a man who is dead and knows not of what the world thinks of his art now, while there are people in this world who are struggling to put food on their table, or getting bombed, or simply living without the privileges we have.

Absolutely absurd.

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Eva Hesse, Contingent, (cheesecloth, latex, fiberglass), 1969 [National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. © The Estate of Eva Hesse]

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Morandi and new Olley works unveiled beside Monet

New artworks on display in Murwillumbah as part of Sharing the National Collection initiative. Artwork by renowned Italian still life painter Giorgio Morandi and Australia’s Margaret Olley now hang alongside renowned French Impressionist Claude Monet..

New artworks on display in Murwillumbah as part of Sharing the National Collection initiative Tweed Regional Gallery Curator – Exhibitions Tina Wilson and installer Sam Steinhauer carefully hang the Giorgio Morandi masterpiece. The artwork is on display at the Tweed Regional Gallery as part of the National Gallery’s Sharing the National Collection initiative. (Photo Luke Marsden) Artwork by…

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Abendland (Twilight of the West)

Anselm Kiefer, 2007

National Gallery of Australia

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The new order, Noel Counihan, 1942

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[Video] Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities

via Foreign Correspondent ABC News, 03 August 2023: Documentary on how Cambodia is seeking the repatriation of its stolen artefacts.

via Foreign Correspondent ABC News, 03 August 2023: Documentary on how Cambodia is seeking the repatriation of its stolen artefacts, featuring the return of the Cham bronzes from the National Gallery of Australia. It’s been called the biggest art theft in history – thousands of statues stolen from temples across Cambodia and sold to private collectors and international museums, including here in…