Reviews

1.5
Melbourne Now
National Gallery of Victoria 22 November 2013 – 23 March 2014
1.262
New Histories
Artist and writer Stephanie Radok reviews three big new books that point towards new histories of art in the Southern hemisphere - Art in Oceania: A New History; Hotsprings: the Northern Territory and contemporary Australian artists and Mapping South: journeys in South-South Cultural Relations.
1.388
21st Century Portraits
Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013 Freelance curator and scholar Margot Osborne reviews a new book on portraiture published by the National Portrait Gallery of London and featuring three Australian artists among others from around the world.
1.408
Groggy: Therese Ritchie, Todd Williams
Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Darwin 13 September – 12 October 2013
0.712
JamFactory Icon 2013, Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura
JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, 8 August – 28 September 2013
1.214
Tony Woods: An Archive
Art Information, 2013
Editor: Andrew Gaynor; Introduction: Tony Woods; Essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenisch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson
0.562
Vocal Folds
Curator: Jacqueline Doughty Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 22 June – 20 July 2013
0.75
The Red Queen
MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Hobart 18 June 2013 – 21 April 2014
1.334
55th Venice Biennale: The Encylopedic Palace
55th International Art Exhibition, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
0.704
Bill Hart: Conversations in the Dark
Rosny Barn, Hobart
7 – 30 June 2013
1.38
Michael Zavros: The Prince
Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
24 May – 7 July 2013
1.022
Heartland: Contemporary art from South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
21 June – 8 September 2013
1.266
Toni Wilkinson: Uncertain Disclosures
Perth Centre for Photography
13 June - 14 July 2013
0.666
Roy Ananda: The Devourer; Sandra Uray-Kennett: A Knights Tour through a Rent in the Wall
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Gallery and Project Space, Adelaide
26 April – 26 May 2013
0.778
19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts: Resistance is Futile
19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts
7 – 16 June 2013
 
1.118
Alistair Rowe: Pioneer Village
Moana Project Space, Perth
20 June – 15 July 2013
0.694
John A. Douglas: Body Fluid II (redux)
Performance Space, Carriageworks
23 May – 16 June 2013
1.334
Augmentor
Outward, Launceston, Tasmania
7 – 22 June 2013
1.502
Mike Brown Festival
Mike Brown Festival, Various venues, Melbourne
2013
 
0.646
The archive in the contemporary
The artworks of Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson each draw on archival material for subject matter, for inspiration, and to develop new work that harks back and forward at the same time.
0.728
Desert Lake
Curator: Mandy Martin Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs 2 March – 14 April 2013
0.666
Fernando do Campo: Onomatopoeia
Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS 1 February – 8 March 2013
0.756
Field
Curator: Lisa Bryan-Brown Hold Artspace, Brisbane 1–17 March 2013
1.334
Louise Bourgeois: Late Works
Curator: Jason Smith Heide Museum of Modern Art 21 November 2012 – 11 March 2013
1.5
Mouths and Meaning Bronwyn Platten, Sarah Coggrave and others
Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide 1 February – 2 March 2013
1.454
New Olds - Design between Tradition and Innovation
Curator: Volker Albus RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 7 December 2012 – 9 March 2013
0.666
Onside
Curator: Toni Bailey Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 9 February – 24 March 2013
0.998
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: The Beautiful as Force
Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney 7–31 March 2013
0.75
Sculpture@Bathers
Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle 16 March – 1 April 2013
0.746
Testing Ground
Curator: Julie Gough Artists: The 1491s, Ólöf Björnsdóttir, Trudi Brinckman, Darren Cook, Rebecca Dagnall, Sue Kneebone, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Jeroen Offerman, Perdita Phillips, r e a, Keren Ruki, Christian Thompson, Martin Walch, Siying Zhou Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart 14 March – 28 April 2013
1.148
tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula
Curator: John Neylon Flinders University Art Museum 28 February – 28 April 2013
1.314
Go figure: contemporary Chinese portraiture
Curator: Claire Roberts
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
0.562
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
0.748
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
0.562
We don’t need a map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert
Fremantle Arts Centre 
17 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Curators, Erin Coates, Kathleen Sorensen and Gabrielle Sullivan
0.586
A world between: a survey of prints by Milan Milojevic
Curators: Maria Kunda, Paul Zika Plimsoll Gallery
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
0.642
Swedish for argument
Curator: Holly Williams
UTS Gallery, Sydney
1.516
Basil Sellers art prize
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Melbourne
1.662
Peter Tyndall Survey
Curator: Doug Hall
Anna Schwartz Gallery
0.748
Build me a city
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites with Christine Garnaut, Julie Collins
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide 
0.668
MOFO
(MONA’s Festival of Music and Art)
Hobart
0.666
9th Shanghai Biennale: Re-Activation
Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie Co-curators: Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann, Johnson Chang Shanghai Power Station of Art and other venues 2 October 2012 – 31 March 2013
1.5
Beata Batorowicz – Tales within Historical Spaces
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 1 September – 28 October 2012
0.498
Bungaree: the First Australian
Curator: Djon Mundine Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 1 September – 25 November 2012 then touring
0.732
Roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites, Fiona Salmon, Anita Angel Flinders University City Gallery 29 June – 26 August 2012
0.666
In a silent way
Curator: Matt Warren Laura Altman, Monica Brooks, Nicolas Bullen, Darren Cook, Gail Priest, Lawrence English, Samaan Fieck, Joel Stern Contemporary Art Spaces, Hobart 28 July – 26 August 2012
0.57
HERE&NOW12
Curator: Katie Lenanton Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth 11 August – 6 October 2012
1.516
Remarking | Remaking: Contemporary Australian Drawing Connections
Curators: Abdullah M. I. Syed and Wenmin Li Nicole Barakat, Denis Beaubois, Nick Brown, Muamer Cajic, Anie Nheu, Ana Pollack, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Marikit Santiago, Shay Tobin, Teo Treloar Remarking | Remaking Community Project Nicole Barrakat in collaboration with Blacktown Indian Subcontinent Women’s Group Blacktown Arts Centre 20 July – 1 September 2012
0.666
Pat Brassington: Á Rebours
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne 11 August - 23 September 2012
0.738
Colour by number
!Metro Arts, Brisbane 19 September – 6 October 2012
0.668
Conversations in ellipsis: an exercise in affect & association… time & (e)motion studies, or things unsaid
Curator: Lisa Harms Adelaide Botanic Garden, FELTspace, SASA Gallery 31 July – 26 August 2012
0.668
A Universe of Small Truths: Julie Henderson
AEAF (Australian Experimental Art Foundation), Adelaide 20 July – 18 August 2012
0.666
Ian Burns: In the Telling
ACMI, Melbourne 24 July 2012 – 20 January 2013
0.666
dOCUMENTA (13)
Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Kassel, Germany 9 June – 16 September 2012
0.668
Contemporary Australia: Women
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane 21 April – 22 July 2012
0.712
Theatre of the World
Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in collaboration with TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), Hobart 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013
0.748
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
0.664
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
0.748
unDisclosed: second National Indigenous Art Triennial
Curator: Carly Lane National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 11 May – 22 July 2012
0.836
Camouflage: Visual Art and Design in Disguise
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland 15 June – 7 October 2012
0.668
No Added Sugar: Engagement and Self-determination
Curator: Rusaila Bazlamit Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 12 May – 18 July 2012
0.996
Melissa Smith: Dissolve
Sawtooth, Launceston 27 April – 19 May 2012
0.812
The Kick Ass Painting Show
Curators: Brigid Noone, Ben Leslie Fontanelle, Adelaide 24 May – 30 June 2012
1.14
Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey
Fremantle Arts Centre 18 May – 19 July 2012
0.662
In-Habit (Project Another Country)
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 22 June – August 2012
1.338
Animal/Human
Curator: Michele Helmrich UQ Art Museum, Brisbane 12 May – 22 July 2012
0.692
South Australia Illustrated: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise
Curator: Jane Hylton Art Gallery of South Australia 2 June – 5 August 2012
0.768
Trevor Richards: Recent works 2009 – 2012
Turner Galleries, Perth 18 May – 16 June 2012
1.626
We are all Flesh: Berlinde De Bruckyere
ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne 2 June – 29 July 2012
1.29
How did Aborigines invent the idea of contemporary art?
Brenda L Croft, artist, curator and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW, reviews and finds gaps in the big pink book put together over many years by Ian McLean that collects iconic bits of writing about Aboriginal art and knits them together.
0.75
Indigenous Art Code: cracking the code
The Director of the Indigenous Art Code John Oster explains the Code, how it works, why it is needed and who isn't complying.
0.668
Andrew McQualter: A partial index
Daine Singer, Melbourne 27 January - 3 March 2012
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