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Australia's most prestigious competition for press photographers, the Nikon-Walkley Photographic Awards, culminate in this eclectic exhibition showcasing the best press photos from across the country.
Every year more than 1000 photographs are judged for selection in the Nikon-Walkley Photographic Awards.
This year, the exhibition will showcase over 90 works by Australia's best photojournalists who have been selected on the short list nomination for the Walkley Award.
The photos chronicle the news, events, elation and tragedy of the year in the media.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Philippe de Montebello-whose long and storied career at the Museum has spanned nearly a third of the institution's entire history-will retire after more than 30 years as its eighth, and longest-serving, Director.
Mr. de Montebello, who first joined the staff as a curatorial assistant in 1963, became Director in 1977, and assumed the additional role of Chief Executive Officer in 1998, plans to step down by December 31, 2008.
"To say that his decision marks the end of an era surely constitutes one of the great understatements, not only in the Museum's life, but in the cultural life of the city, the state, the nation, and the world," said James R. Houghton, Chairman of the Metropolitan's Board of Trustees.
"Philippe de Montebello's manifest contributions to the Met span four decades bridging two different centuries.
He leaves an incomparable legacy of accomplishment that has significantly enhanced the institution and brilliantly served its vast international public.
No museum director anywhere has done more to expand and enrich the appreciation of art for more generations and with greater taste, erudition, diplomacy, and vision than Philippe de Montebello.
As much as we regret his planned departure, we join in celebrating achievements that will sustain the Metropolitan-its collections, its programs, and its magnificent galleries-for generations to come."
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"This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
The man was Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), a vicar's son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings.
Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity.
And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists.
Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long.
His truest friend was his brother Theo, who supported him unstintingly throughout and followed him to the grave just six months later.
This richly illustrated study by two experts on van Gogh follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, through the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris, to the work of his final years under a southern sun in Arles, where he at last found the light that produced the unmistakable van Gogh style.
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The moving image has become a powerful medium for the representation of designed worlds and revolutionized the abstraction of that which is designed.
While designers have become more open to the interests of cinema, cinema is expansively engaged with issues of design.
This third meeting of the series Design and Cinema is organized with the intention of bringing together scholars and practitioners for theorizing and rhetorizing the interpretation and production of those environments assumed to exist as real, hyper-real and/or virtual, embracing all hybrid forms.
"We believe that this theme will uncover those other far-reaching issues related to the realized and potential mise-en-scène designed.
The real covers issues of designing of objects and environments, and the experience of the designed, as in the staging of the setting including both the actors and the scenery.
Since what we understand from the hyper-real is an illusion whose effects are more real than the reality itself, the socio-political character of this phenomenon is expected to unravel itself in discussions dealing with the forces involved in the manipulation of reality and the blurring of the real for those who experience it in their daily lives."
The virtual understood as a parallel universe, the technology and know-how employed in its implementation, and all hybrid forms of existing parallel in the world of the real and the virtual are expected to be the focus of discussions here.
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of America's most significant post-war painters.
This exhibition will be an unprecedented exploration of his late series of work.
At the centre of the exhibition will be a group of 15 Seagram murals uniting for the first time Tate's group of nine murals - known as the Rothko room - with a selection of murals from the collections of Kawamura Memorial Art Museum, Japan and the National Gallery, Washington.
The exhibition will take these works as a starting point for a critical investigation into Rothko's approach to painting and the murals will be complemented by a group of related large-scale gouaches as well as archival material related to the inception of Tate's Rothko room.
The artist's so-called Blackform paintings, his large-scale works on paper and his final series of Black on Grey paintings from the late 1960s, will all feature prominently in the exhibition.
These works challenge standard preconceptions of Rothko as a painter focused primarily on the effect of colour.
This exhibition will come as a revelation even to those familiar with the artist's work.
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