Image above: Conrad Martins, Stalagmites, Burragalong Cavern, 1843

Summaries and images at
JTArtRave – 2017 Art References
https://jtartrave.wordpress.com/art-references/

Lectures, talks, collections
Summaries, notes, observations, and some key works
Includes AGNSW lecture series

Art and revolution: The life and death of the Russian avant-garde
Site specific: the power of place

Art and revolution: The life and death of the Russian avant-garde
2 February A revolution in art on the eve of 1917
9 February The life and death of the Russian avant-garde
16 February Art in revolution under the Bolsheviks
23 February The bright future
Site specific: the power of place
1 February The power of place for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
8 February Nonggirrnga Marawili: Yathikpa
15 February Claude Lorrain and the Roman Campagna
22 February Canaletto, Venice and 18th century view painting
1 March The art of Lotus Moon, Buddhist nun in 19th century Kyoto
8 March Constable: Flatford Mill and the River Stour
15 March John Olsen: the littoral and the void – (missed in Canberra)
22 March For nation and Empire: George Lambert and Ibrahim Çalli at Gallipoli
29 March Conrad Martens and Burragalong Cavern
5 April ‘…finding a new Beautiful World’: John Glover in Tasmania
26 April ‘Soap suds and whitewash’: Turner and the sea
3 May Baltic Light: Caspar David Friedrich, the Cliffs of Rügen and the Northern Romantic Sublime
10 May Eugene von Guérard and Cape Schanck
17 May Sir John Everett Millais: the allure of Scotland
31 May Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico
7 June Constantin Brâncusi and the Garden of Jewels
14 June John Peter Russell’s France: Belle-Île and Antibes at the fin de siècle
21 June The memory of place: Julie Gough and Judy Watson
28 June David Hockney: a bigger splash in California
19 July Colin McCahon and Muriwai
26 July Matisse and the golden light of Collioure
2 August Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia
9 August Heidelberg: Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Jane Sutherland
16 August New York, New York: Frank Hinder, Brett Whiteley and Tracey Moffatt
23 August Land Art: from Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ to Agnes Denes’s ‘Wheatfield’
30 August Rosalie Gascoigne and the Monaro
6 September The Path: Abdulnasser Gharem’s considerations of contemporary Saudi Arabia
13 September Ruisdael, Cuyp and the landscape painters of 17th century Holland
20 September Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and Bentinck Island
11 October Monet: from Honfleur to Giverny
18 October Cézanne and Provence
25 October Fred Williams and the You Yangs
1 November Jeffrey Smart’s Posticcia Nuova – a villa with a view
8 November Max Dupain and the beach
15 November Persian architecture: building with the elements