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Exhibition: ‘William Wegman: Fay’ at the Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Exhibition dates: 16th May – 16th August, 2009 A selection of photographs of Fay by William Wegman. Gotta love that dog! “The Akron Art Museum is deeply honored to be one of only two venues to...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at NRW-Forum Dusseldorf
Exhibition dates: 6th February – 15th August 2010 . Robert Mapplethorpe was a classical photographer with a great eye for form and beauty, an artist who explored the worlds he knew and lived...
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Exhibition: ‘Mark Morrisroe’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
Exhibition dates: 27th November 2010 – 13th February 2011 . This is an emotional posting for me. I came out as a gay man in 1975, six short years after the Stonewall Riots in New York City that were...
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Exhibition: ‘André Kertész – Retrospective’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 15th May 2011 . Many thankx to the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Camera as a Mirror’ at the Moderna...
Exhibition dates: 18th February 2012 – 22nd April 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951 – 2010′ at the Centre for Fine...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 29th April 2012 . “In a certain sense, Twombly operates like the pictorialists: his photographs look almost like paintings in which light is captured in brushstrokes.”...
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Exhibition: ‘Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240′ at Berkeley Art Museum and...
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 20th May 2012 . ONE PERSON has found one of the images below offensive; so just for them please note that his posting has a PENIS and A-RRRRRR-SE rating. For all...
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Exhibition: ‘Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity’ at...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 26th August 2012 . On the Nature of Photography . “To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of...
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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe’ at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los...
Exhibition dates: 23rd October 2012 – 24th March 2013 . One of the reasons for setting up Art Blart nearly five years ago was the idea of an exhibition archive – the cataloguing of the blog’s posts so...
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Exhibition: ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Photographs 1975–2012′ at the De Pont...
Exhibition dates: 5th October 2013 - 19th January 2014 . . This is (our) reality. . . Many thankx to the De Pont museum of contemporary art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting....
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Review: ‘Stephen Dupont / The White Sheet Series No. 1′ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 3rd May 2014 This is a wonderful exhibition by Stephen Dupont at Edmund Pearce Gallery. Using a 4″ x 5″ Polaroid type 55 and striping away the emulsion, Dupont is left...
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Exhibition: ‘John Divola: As Far As I Could Get’ at the Los Angeles County...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2013 – 6th July 2014 FINALLY…. two postings on consecutive days by conceptual artists who use photography to document their staging, performance, sculpture, body,...
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Review: ‘Polaroid Project’ at Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 14th June - 12th July 2014 Polaroid Project is a vaguely disappointing exhibition at Arts Project Australia. The intentions and concept are good but the work sits rather silently...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ at The Museum of Modern Art...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 7th September 2014 A bumper posting on probably the most important photo-media artist who has ever lived. This is how to successfully make conceptual photo-art. A...
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Andy Warhol unplugged
November 2014 Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo boxes… and BIG BLACK COCKS! Gorgeous, intimate Polaroids of the male form. God he knew how to tell and sell a story in two or three images. Marcus *PLEASE...
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Andy Warhol unplugged 2
May 2015 Andy Warhol being, well … Andy Warhol. Artist, tourist, celebrity, poofter, man about town and spontaneous, thoughtful snapper. The photograph of the Prado at night is superb as are the...
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Exhibition: ‘Cy Twombly’ at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2016 – 24th April 2017 This posting is for a friend who is a great Twombly fan. Of the installation photograph of the series Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963, below)...
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Exhibition: ‘Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition’ as part of the NGV Festival...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 30th July 2017 Individual art works from the NGV collection (in artist alphabetical order) appearing in Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition at NGV Australia ” … from...
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Exhibition: ‘The Polaroid Project’ at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 16th March – 17th June 2018 Anna Reynolds Marcus / Mutilation of the soul October 1992 Phillip Institute, Melbourne Polaroid I love Polaroid photography. As “instant”...
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