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saluqi the other day reminded me that I intend to spend a few days in the Blue Mountains some time, and part of my agenda is to visit the Norman Lindsay Museum while I'm there. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't put together the fact that the chap who did all those lovely etchings of naked ladies, and equally charming sculptures, ditto, was the same as the one who wrote The Magic Pudding (the pudding that liked being eaten all day long, hee!). Oops, how embarrassing, but yunno, I'm a foreigner.
I'm currently tossing up whether I want to visit the Louvre collection of Egyptiana (links to extremely wanky Flash front page) which is on at the NGA at present, but it might be expensive and a scrum. Still, next week it's probably going to be less scrum-like, and I'll probably kick myself if I don't go. The only other thing there that's appealing (other than the regular collections, which I should troll through again) is an exhibition on "The Birth of the Modern Poster", and that's not starting for a couple of months. Also upcoming is one on Aussie printmaking, 1801-2005, which could be worth a look.
Finally, I think I'll probably go along to check out the exhibition on photography and war that's on at the Australian War Memorial. I hope it'll be less irritating than the one about "Anzacs" in France, 1916. The statement "It is April 1916, the midpoint of the Great War. Australian units have begun to arrive in France. For the first time, the men of the AIF find themselves at the main battle front of the mighty conflict." might summarise my issues with the exhibition. [Hint: AIF (Australian Imperial Force) and Anzac are not synonymous, although one is a subset of the other.]
So, that's my kultcha for the upcoming week! One good reason for holidays, enforced or not, after all.
saluqi the other day reminded me that I intend to spend a few days in the Blue Mountains some time, and part of my agenda is to visit the Norman Lindsay Museum while I'm there. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't put together the fact that the chap who did all those lovely etchings of naked ladies, and equally charming sculptures, ditto, was the same as the one who wrote The Magic Pudding (the pudding that liked being eaten all day long, hee!). Oops, how embarrassing, but yunno, I'm a foreigner. I'm currently tossing up whether I want to visit the Louvre collection of Egyptiana (links to extremely wanky Flash front page) which is on at the NGA at present, but it might be expensive and a scrum. Still, next week it's probably going to be less scrum-like, and I'll probably kick myself if I don't go. The only other thing there that's appealing (other than the regular collections, which I should troll through again) is an exhibition on "The Birth of the Modern Poster", and that's not starting for a couple of months. Also upcoming is one on Aussie printmaking, 1801-2005, which could be worth a look.
Finally, I think I'll probably go along to check out the exhibition on photography and war that's on at the Australian War Memorial. I hope it'll be less irritating than the one about "Anzacs" in France, 1916. The statement "It is April 1916, the midpoint of the Great War. Australian units have begun to arrive in France. For the first time, the men of the AIF find themselves at the main battle front of the mighty conflict." might summarise my issues with the exhibition. [Hint: AIF (Australian Imperial Force) and Anzac are not synonymous, although one is a subset of the other.]
So, that's my kultcha for the upcoming week! One good reason for holidays, enforced or not, after all.
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