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Visions of the demimonde: Albert Tucker in Paris

When Albert Tucker left Melbourne in 1947 he began a thirteen-year journey through Europe and North America, during which time he transformed himself from a politicised urban modernist into a painter with a rich understanding of Australia's complex ancient...

Performing Bodies: Self-portraits

'Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary', an exhibition first shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2004 and now on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, is the first large-scale exhibition to bring together artists'...

The Slow Art of Ah Xian

Twenty years ago Beijing-born artist Ah Xian could not have imagined that in 2005 he would be living and working in a three-level house in a leafy suburb of Sydney. Dressed in a black silk brocade Chinese-style jacket with a selection of artworks arrayed...

Bangkok: exhibition round-up

Bangkok is a city that is hard to summarise with confidence, a cultural and socio-economic melange of Thailand's richest, poorest, and everyone in between. It is a city renowned for being in a constant state of stalled, then jumpstarted, transformation. As...

Questionnaire: Martin Parr

Martin Parr, a Magnum Photographer from Britain, is perhaps best known to the general public for his wonderfully bland collections of Boring Postcards (published by Phaidon). He is also one of the most influential and innovative documentary photographers...

Christian de Vietri

Now that reality television is our surrogate for life experience, it is a truism that objects encountered everyday, on reflection, turn out to be double entendres. Certainty is a relative concept and it follows that relative certainty is as stable as things...