Category: Journal

• Mini Europe

  

  Melbourne was a mini London in the 1880s

  2011-06-22

• Taeuber-Arp and Marni

  

  The colour blocking in Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s costume reminds me of Consuelo Castiglioni’s designs for Marni.

  2011-06-21

• For the love of Cats

  

  Here’s a drawing of the mysterious Snazzy – gone.

  2011-06-20

• Fabric of Australiana

  

  It’s great to have a centenary of something, anything really.

  2011-06-17

• Lesley Dumbrell

  

  Born in 1941 Melbourne artist Lesley Dumbrell has been working with a type of grid.

  2011-06-16

• Tasmania and Peter Conrad

  

  Author Peter Conrad is from Tasmania.

  2011-06-15

• Sidney Nolan

  

  Reading the Patrick McCaughey edited book of the letters between Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan.

  2011-06-14

• St Kilda Road and Australian Federation

  

  There was a moment in St Kilda Road’s history of robberies, armed bandits and bushrangers.

  2011-06-13

• Wiener Werkstätte

  

  The National Gallery of Victoria is about to open an exhibition on the art and design of Vienna at the start of the 1900s.

  2011-06-10

• Chinese Lattice Designs

  

  Dover books have published some very inspiring source books.

  2011-06-09

• Langi Flats and Lemon Scented Gums at 579 Toorak Road, Toorak

  

  Was reminded of the Langi flats in Toorak when checking out the National Trust Trees Iphone App.

  2011-06-08

• Jenny Holzer

  

  Protect me from what I want.

  2011-06-07

• Eric Wilson

  

  There was a story doing the rounds about this Eric Wilson two sided painting.

  2011-06-06

• Douglas Annand

  

  Douglas Annand was born 1903 in Toowoomba, Queensland.

  2011-06-03

• Louise Bourgeois

  

  This exhibition feels like it should be at a big old Museum, not a private gallery.

  2011-06-02

• Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance

  

  In 1923 they put up a sign in the paddock that was The Domain declaring the site for a National War Memorial.

  2011-06-01

• Circles

  

  Grids are my domain.

  2011-05-31

• Morandi and Thiebaud

  

  This interview with artist Wayne Thiebaud about Georgio Morandi is perfect.

  2011-05-30

• Tartan

  

  Tartan have been around since 400 BC or so.

  2011-05-27

• St Patrick’s Cathedral Offices and Presbytery

  

  As you walk past St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne on Albert Street, it’s always a delight to come across the offices and presbytery of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.

  2011-05-25