Tag: State Library of NSW
Hayden Wilson: Fake Truths
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Art can never be ‘fake news’ – it is by definition a work of the imagination, but that doesn’t mean it can’t imitate reality, can’t indulge in forms of masquerade and impersonation. It’s this twilight zone between truth and fiction that fascinates Hadyn Wilson, the 2020 artist-in-residence at the State Library of NSW. The fruit […]
Jeff Carter
Saturday, February 12th, 2011 Australian Art, Sydney Morning Herald Column,Ideally we expect a steely detachment from our arts professionals, but Barry Pearce, the retiring Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, recently admitted that he couldn’t be objective about the works of Justin O’Brien. At the State Library last week I had the same feeling about the late Jeff Carter, one […]
Charles Darwin 200th Birthday Exhibitions
Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald Column,This year marks Charles Darwin’s two hundredth birthday, and exactly 150 years since he published his world-changing book, The Origin of Species. Predictably, the entire planet has been overwhelmed with Darwin exhibitions and publications. I once read that Jesus Christ was the most biographed individual of all time, with Leonardo da Vinci in second place. […]