This publication outlines the exciting and often controversial development of Australia's public galleries and the changing conditions that have determined their exhibition program from the 1960's to the present. The extravagantly illustrated chapters are based on the extensive research of four authors associated with four universities from three states. Richly annotated with multiple appendices and a comphrehensive index of more than 1,500 entries, this publication is an incredible resource for Australian art history that concludes with an analysis of the value of exhibitions that enables visitors to see art with fresh eyes and see the world anew.

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The Australian art market is booming. New galleries and art spaces are opening all the time and more and more people are collecting art than ever before. But how can would-be buyers and experienced collectors alike keep abreast of the country's many galleries and the artists they represent? With full reviews of stand-out galleries and a state-by-state listing of over 800 recognised galleries, artist-run spaces and studios, Reid's Guide to Australian Art Galleries is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to Australia's commercial art world. Also included are listings of the country's significant national and regional galleries and museums as well as framers, conservators, auction houses and other art-related businesses, and essays on everything from making money in the art market to the joys and challenges of running an Aboriginal art centre. Reid's Guide to Australian Art Galleries is an indispensable and practical resource for buying art. No art lover should be without a copy.

As the first National Portrait Gallery travelling exhibition, The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists represents an important milestone in the history of Australia's National Portrait Gallery. Guest curator Helen Ennis has assembled a lively exhibition of portraits of painters, printmakers and photographers from the turn of the century to the 1990s.

For over 40,000 years, people have been arriving awestruck on Australia, at the edge of the earth. Researched and compiled entirely by students who know how to see the world on the cheap, this guide contains insider tips and information for the socially conscious traveller.

Art is one of the tools we have to sculpt time and create experiences that are highly concentrated, or open and infinite. - Doug Aitken American artist Doug Aitken is internationally recognised for his ambitious practice that incorporates objects, installations, photographs and vast, multi-screen environments that envelop viewers within a kaleidoscope of moving imagery and sound. Aitken has realised museum projects around the world, as well as monumental interventions within the natural landscape and below the ocean's surface. This beautifully designed book encompasses the breadth of Aitken's artistic practice and is produced on the occasion of his survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia. Edited by chief curator Rachel Kent, it features a series of in-depth interviews that provide fascinating insights into Aitken's creative thinking and his wider engagement with the creative communities around him; and a series of image plates documenting his acclaimed museum works, landscape interventions and live happenings. Informative and visually compelling, it is sure to be a favourite among Aitken's collectors, as well as those interested in contemporary art.

In recognizing the established intellectual and institutional authority of Aboriginal artists, curators, and academics working in cultural institutions and universities, this volume serves as an important primer on key questions and issues accompanying the changing representational practices of the community cultural center, the public art gallery and the anthropological museum.

This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.

Widow Holly Halloran's fresh start is only a plane ride away, until Lukas Antonides-the man she hates, but has never been able to forget-strides arrogantly back into her life... Lukas was her late husband's best friend and openly disapproved of Holly. Then on one unforgettable night their acrimony ricocheted into the bedroom!

Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas. In 'An Opening: Twelve love stories about art', Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments. 'Art wants to enter our lives, yet it is a rare art writer who lets it do that. Writing with full personal disclosure, Stephanie Radok lets us in on her secret. Art c.