Artists: Bill Henson
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What’s in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography: Art Gallery of NSW - 24 September 2011 to 5 February 2012
Sebastian Smee
What can you read into a photograph of a face? Hurt. Happiness. Confidence. Contempt. There’s no limit. Indeed, if you’re anything like me...
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Random Thoughts on Art and the Public Arena. Bill Henson
Bill Henson
In celebration of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary, artist and photographer Bill Henson gives some random (though by no...
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Bill Henson: The light and the dark and the shades of grey (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the much-anticipated Melbourne Art Foundation 2010 Lecture, artist Bill Henson delivers a vigorous defence of...
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Bill Henson: The light and the dark and the shades of grey (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (Question time)In the much-anticipated Melbourne Art Foundation 2010 Lecture, artist Bill Henson delivers a...
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Bill Henson. The light and the dark and the shades of grey
Bill Henson
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (Question time)In the much-anticipated Melbourne Art Foundation 2010 Lecture, artist Bill Henson delivers a...
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C'est la vie: Edmund Capon's "I Blame Duchamp"
Sebastian Smee
No one ever seems surprised by Edmund Capon’s success, for he is charm incarnate. He has led one of Australia’s most visited art galleries...
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Michael Leunig in conversation with Jane Sullivan (p2)
Michael Leunig
One of Australia's best-loved cartoonists Michael Leunig discusses his work, his life, the terrible recent bushfires, Picasso, Bill...
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Michael Leunig in conversation with Jane Sullivan
Michael Leunig
One of Australia's best-loved cartoonists Michael Leunig discusses his work, his life, the terrible recent bushfires, Picasso, Bill...
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Unsettled: David Marr’s ‘The Henson Case’
Sebastian Smee
David Marr's book on the Bill Henson controversy (Text Publishing, 149pp; $24.95) begins with a reasonable man reasonably wondering if...
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David Marr on The Henson Case
David Marr
Journalist and writer David Marr speaks passionately and intelligently about the recent sagas involving photographer Bill Henson, which are...
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Art Censorship public forum: Burnside, Marr, Johnston, Hamilton, Howard, Bond
Art Censorship: the Bigger Picture was the title of this public forum that took place on 12th June at the Museum of Contemporary Art in...
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Art Censorship public forum (p4)
Art Censorship: the Bigger Picture was the title of a public forum that took place on 12th June at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney...
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Art Censorship public forum (p3)
Clive Hamilton
Art Censorship: the Bigger Picture was the title of this public forum that took place on 12th June at the Museum of Contemporary Art in...
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Art Censorship public forum (p2)
Julian Burnside
Art Censorship: the Bigger Picture was the title of this public forum that took place on 12th June at the Museum of Contemporary Art in...
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'3 Decades of Photography by Bill Henson', National Gallery of Victoria
Justin Clemens
A young man masturbates, his face and torso scattered across a sequence of photos. Blurry and disjointed, you never see the act itself....
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Large Splendid Empty Rooms: Nicole Kidman in 'Birth'
Helen Garner
A light snow is falling. A runner in gloves and hooded black tracksuit goes pounding away from us along the curving paths of Central Park,...
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