Exhibition dates: 17th April – 7th September, 2025 Curator: Sarah Meister Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953)Welcome Home1978-1984From the series Family Pictures and Stories 1978-1984© Carrie Mae Weems and reproduced courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin I love … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter’ at Gallerie d’Italia, Turin"| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
Exhibition dates: 2nd May – 1st September, 2025 Marius Meijboom (Dutch, 1911-1998)Hunger WinterFebruary 1945Marius Meijboom / Niod Iconic photo of Henkie Holvast from the Jordaan, 9 years old Resist! The photograph of Henkie Holvast (February 1945, above) is an example of the famine the Nazis inflicted on the general population … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘The Underground Camera’ at Foam, Amsterdam"| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
Exhibition dates: 12th June – 31st August, 2025 Curator: Sérgio Mah Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)Surf, Bodega193719 x 24cmGelatin silver printCenter for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Edward Weston Archive Three week’s to the day since my hip replacement operation and I’m still in pain. I know, slowly slowly but it’s … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘Edward Weston. La matèria de les formes’ at Centro de Fotografía KBr Fundación MAPFRE, Bar...| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 16th August, 2025 Curated by Catlin Langford with Christopher Sutherland and Jessie Norman (Metro Auto Photo) Installation view of the exhibition Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, June – August, 2025Photo: Marcus Bunyan Dream Maker This is one of the most joyous photography … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits’ at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne"| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
August 2025 Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)Corfe Castle and graveyard, Dorset1994Gelatin silver print Apologies There will be no posting on Art Blart this week as I continue to recover from hip replacement surgery last weekend. Dr Marcus Bunyan LIKE ART BLART ON FACEBOOK Back to top| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
July 2025 Unknown photographer (Australian)The Nobbies, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia1960sEktachrome medium format transparency scanned Further Australian photographs from scans of 73 medium format Kodak Ektakchrome slides found in a country town in Victoria, Australia taken in Australia, Mexico, United States of America and Canada in the mid-1960s. I believe that the … Continue reading "Photographs: Anonymous 1960s medium format Kodak Ektachrome slides of Australia"| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
July 2025 Unknown photographer (Australian)Hawaii1960sEktachrome medium format transparency scanned State of grace I was very excited by the discovery in a country town in Victoria, Australia of 73 medium format Kodak Ektakchrome slides taken in Australia, Mexico, United States of America and Canada in the mid-1960s. I believe that the photographer … Continue reading "Photographs: Anonymous 1960s medium format Kodak Ektachrome slides of the United States of America, Canada and ...| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
Exhibition dates: 7th May – 27th July, 2025 Edgar Finlay (Australian, 1893-1974)Untitled Streetscape1919Oil on board32.2 x 27.2cm This is a near perfect exhibition of Australian Tonalist paintings from the John and Peter Perry Collection at the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne. From the beautiful colour of the gallery walls which compliments … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘Australian Tonalism: A selection from the John and Peter Perry Collection’ at the Town Hall Ga...| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 20th July, 2025 Curators: Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs. Virginia McBride, Research Associate in the Department of Photographs, provided assistance. Unknown MakerWoman Wearing a Tignonc. 1850Daguerreotype with applied colourCase (open): 3 1/8 × 7 1/4 in. (8 × 18.4cm)The … Continue reading "Exhibition: ‘The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...| Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive
A sacred stillness permeates the atmosphere as they close their eyes and feel the moonlight shimmer on their eyelids.| Random Specific Thoughts
A good place to start on Tetsuro Watsuji’s Climate (1935) is by considering how the very notion of the Japanese fudo as it appears defined in the first pages of the text, as a “structural element of human existence”. Augustin Berque has proposed a slightly different translation: the “structural moment” that speaks semantically to the […]| Infrapolitical Reflections
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.| Frank Elavsky
Our current minister of defence had made a public speech last week, stating that the US's image has "changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent." Considering that Singapore has traditionally tried to stay as politically neutral and ambiguous as possible, it feels like some tide has turned. This is on top...| Winnie Lim
Something strange happened to me that you’re going to laugh at when I tell you because it’s not *actually* that strange but it jolted me out of whatever funk I’ve been in for weeks if not months: I hung out with someone who was optimistic. Sincerely. Honestly. GENUINELY. Hopeful. His worldview was one of seeing…| That Seems Important
Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But the problem is, this is literally all we can say about the universe. This is the problem of solipsism.| Historic Mysteries
Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself just like I wouldn’t expect someone without a leg to run a marathon, I shouldn’t expect myself to function like a normal human being because my brain is dysfunctional. I can’t tell how much of my...| Winnie Lim
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings in me. I guess that is why I had a multi-year respite when I moved to SF for a while. For that few...| Winnie Lim
The Three Marks or The Three Basic Facts of Existence In Buddhism, the Three Marks of Existence are three characteristics shared by all sentient beings, namely impermanence (anicca), suffering or unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and non-self (anatta). Annica – Impermanence – Nothing ever stays the same, and change is often painful in some way. You fall in love with your . . . → Read More: Three Marks of Existence| Daily Buddhism