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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History | May 18th 2012 Has the recent cleaning of Titian’s Martyrdom of St Lawrence revealed a self portrait of the artist? Calls for an overhaul of Australia’s major funding body for the arts, with a review saying the Australia Council board needs to be reshaped to...
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Recent News and Writing on Art and Art History | May 11th Major galleries and museum get a funding boost in the latest federal budget, while the Melbourne Museum announces job losses and changes to its exhibitions program to cover funding shortfall. Apart from shocking human toll, Syria’s artistic and archaeological heritage is also suffering...
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Today the National Gallery of Victoria unveiled Nicolas Poussin’s The Crossing of the Red Sea’ after an intensive, twelve-month conservation project. The painting is one of the NGV’s, and arguably Australia’s, finest European masterpieces. It was painted by Poussin in 1633-34 along with its companion piece The Adoration of the Golden Calf, which is housed in...
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News and Writing on Art and Art History | 27th April The reading habits of medieval people have been studied by Dr Kathryn Rudy, of St Andrews University, by looking at the dirt marks on pages. Fancy a touch of art history trainspotting? Bendor Grosvenor is asking his readers spot identifiable ‘unknown portraits’ in...
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News and Writing on Art and Art History Workers from the National Gallery of Victoria, Museum Victoria, the Arts Centre, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Film Victoria have threatened industrial action unless the government improves its 2.5 per cent wage offer for public sector staff. Streeton, Da Vinci and the science...
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Gerard Vaughan appointed Professorial Fellow The University of Melbourne has announced today that the outgoing director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Gerard Vaughan, has been appointed to a new post at the University of Melbourne, the Gerry Higgins Professorial Fellowship in Art History. The Fellowship has been created through the support of Mr Allan...
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Recent News and Writing on Art and Art History The second version of the Google Art project was launched last week, mostly to acclaim. Six Australian galleries have joined the project, which allows you to both take a Google Street view type walk through a collection as well as zoom up close to works...
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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History Photos in colour from early twentieth-century Russia by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who took thousands of vividly coloured photographs of the last days of the Russian Empire. In a move that is both bizarre and a sign of the times in particular for galleries the...
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![Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Italian, 1452 - 1519, c. 1474/1478, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund](http://199.238.187.99/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/leonardo-ginevra-150x150.jpg "A14623.tif")
News and Writing about Art and Art History Architect Corbett Lyon and his family get the go ahead from the City of Boroondara to develop a small public museum in Cotham Road, Kew. The Guardian looks at Damien Hirst, the world’s richest artist on the eve of his Tate retrospective. The Artintheblood blog raises questions about...
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News and Writing about Art and Art History | March 16th 2012 The big art history news this week has been Maurizio Seracini’s announcement that his team drilling through a Vasari (BBC with video) in search of Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’ fresco have found some flecks of paint (Guardian). The news has excited media outlets with some...
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