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23.01.2022 Final days to visit "Gold and the Incas" at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra! http://bit.ly/1io9YFi And if you can't make it, you can still read about it in ICON Magazine Issue 1: http://bit.ly/P4tgE0
22.01.2022 Have your say about Queensland's cultural evolution.
22.01.2022 "Fashion Detective" and "When This You See Remember Me" open today at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square. Never miss an exhibition or event, with ICON's national arts calendar: bit.ly/17UadEl ****... Images: MOUBRAY, ROWAN & HICKS, Melbourne (retailer); UNKNOWN (manufacturer) Shoes 1880-1893 (X-ray) leather, metal, glass, silk (a-b) 10.5 x 6.7 x 22.9 cm (each) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mr J. G. H. Sprigg, 1971 D113.a-b-1971 Yes 1994 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 190.0 x 145.0 cm Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Gift of the Estate of David McDiarmid, 1998 (1998.25)
21.01.2022 "Cycling in Adelaide" will be back, from 16-31 May this year, as part of the Velofringe festival. Learn more about this city-wide poster exhibition here: http://bit.ly/1su26DP
20.01.2022 A new form of street art? Not really: 25 councils have already partnered with artists to enliven their roadside equipment.
20.01.2022 Thanks for the heads-up @Angela Robertson-Buchanan! The Head On Photo Festival is now on in Sydney. You can find all the details on the festival website, including Angela's exhibition at the Art House Hotel.
20.01.2022 Spring is well and truly (t)here: check out these gorgeous photos of public and private gardens from around France. 2300 of them are open for visit this weekend, if you feel like a break :)
20.01.2022 Our calendar of arts events may not be as amazingly big as Nike Savvas's work "Rally", currently adorning the Art Gallery of New South Wales's lobby, but it is as colourful! Visit http://bit.ly/17UadEl to find events and exhibitions to attend all around Australia! Image: Rally, by Nike Savvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo by Emily Hanlon
20.01.2022 Events and exhibition openings are pilling up on ICON's calendar. Have a look: bit.ly/17UadEl
19.01.2022 Our Facebook page has just been updated with the latest layout. Check it out: ICON Magazine *** Image: Jeffrey Smart, Labyrinth
16.01.2022 Yesterday, the Bern Art Museum was surprised to learn it had been named sole heir of a large collection of artworks amassed by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a German art dealer specialising in "degenerate art" under the Nazi regime. The collection, estimated at 1 billion euro, includes about 1,500 artworks by the likes of Chagall and Picasso. The provenance of the artworks, many of them looted by the Nazi regime, raises complex ethical issues for the Swiss art gallery. Learn more: http://reut.rs/1jCeh0f
16.01.2022 18 sleeps until the next issue of ICON comes out. Join us everyday at 7pm EST for a sneak peek into the magazine. Today, we look at the interviews of two recently appointed Directors. Kim McKay AO is the first female director of the Australian Museum, with a strong track record in environmental science and protection. In her 1-page interview, she talks about her background and her plans for the museum, including the exciting "New Museum" project. ... Dr. Mathew Trinca has been working with The National Museum of Australia for over 10 years and has recently been appointed as its new director. He discusses his interest in history and heritage, and the new ways the National Museum reaches out to the public. Learn more about the contents of ICON Magazine Issue 4 and see you tomorrow for another preview!
16.01.2022 Today, we look at "Treasures Gallery: An ever-changing display at the National Library of Australia", from ICON Magazine Issue 4, on sale May 5. In this beautifully illustrated article, Nat Williams - James and Bettison Treasures Curator at the National Library of Australia - presents a history of this major Australian institution through the building of its collection, showcased in its popular Treasures Gallery display. From the early steps taken by the first Commonwealth... Government shortly after Federation in 1901 to create a Commonwealth Parliamentary Library to the registration of the collection into the memory of the World Register by UNESCO in 2001, Nat Williams retraces a century of developing the collection. The scope and sheer number of artefacts collected by the NLA, and enjoyed by more than 250,000 visitors over the years through the Treasures Gallery display, is stunning and Nat William's expertise in the matter offers a great insight on the role and dynamics of Australia's National Library. "Treasure Gallery" is featured in ICON Magazine Issue 4, along with 30 other in-depth articles and interviews. Learn more on ICON Magazine's website and join us tomorrow for a new preview into Issue Four!
15.01.2022 Happy birthday Old Parliament House, Canberra!
14.01.2022 To end the Easter long weekend with a bang, we look into "Titian and the Venetian Empire" from the National Gallery of Victoria, featured in ICON Magazine Issue 4, on sale May 5. Beautifully illustrated by masterpieces from Titian, Lorenzo Lotto and Jacaopo Bassano, this essay by Laurie Benson - Curator for International Art at the Gallery - explores the flamboyant painting style of 16th century Venice . An essential read for any visitor to the upcoming "Italian Masterpiece...s from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado" exhibition at the NGV (part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series), this piece gives keys to understand the phenomenon that is Titian and how his masterful use of colour for emotional and sensual effect inspired European artists at the time. Find more about the other articles in the upcoming issue of ICON on our site and meet us tomorrow, same time, same space, to explore a new facet of the magazine.
12.01.2022 Have you ever seen one of these? This photo of a goblin shark, taken in the Gulf of Mexico, had American marine biologists very excited. Read more about this living fossil: http://bit.ly/Q4vh3r Photo: Carl Moore
12.01.2022 Two weeks to sharpen your pencils and head to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra!
11.01.2022 The last thylacine went down fighting.
11.01.2022 ICON Magazine Issue Four will be on sale 5 May 2014. See the contents and preview the magazine on http://bit.ly/RqEPre *** Cover image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery - Sophie Lowe, Photographer: Peter Brew-Bevan
10.01.2022 Congratulations to Art Gallery of South Australia for a very successful 2014 Adelaide Biennial: http://bit.ly/1smQphW
08.01.2022 ICON Magazine's Thomas Biedermann recently visited "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and came back with a few stories and sketches. Read more: http://bit.ly/1lYHoda **** Image: Sketch - Throne arm support in the shape of a woman riding a leogryph (mythical creature with body of a lion, wings of an eagle and beak of a parrot), 1st century CE, Begram, Ivory
08.01.2022 Looks like Sydney-siders already have half their week-end lined up!
08.01.2022 In today's sneak peek into ICON Magazine Issue 4, we look at "Plumes and Pearlshells", coming up in May at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In "Plumes and Pearlshells: Art of the New Guinea Highlands", Natalie Wilson, Curator at the Gallery, explains the background and roots of the magnificent art forms of New Guinea, which are the focus of this exhibition, from the initial settlement 50,000 years ago to the mutations brought by the contact with Western settlers in the 20...th century. The introduction of the time-honoured British tradition of the agricultural fair in the 1950s was a key initiative to curb fighting between warring tribes, as well as between indigenous population and colonial settlers, and would create an amazing opportunity for Australian Stanley Gordon Moriarty to gather an amazing collection of works of art and craft, most of which he later donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Natalie Wilson's expertise is illustrated by beautiful photographs of the soon-to-be-exhibits and is featured in ICON 4, on sale May 5. Learn more about the contents in this issue on and see you tomorrow for a new preview of ICON Magazine #4.
07.01.2022 It is a pleasure to welcome the Powerhouse Museum into ICON Magazine. Today, we look at the two articles from the Powerhouse featured in ICON Magazine #4, on sale 5 May. In "Need for Speed" Glynis Jones - Design and Society Curator at the Museum - explores the challenges of preserving and caring for the Museum's iconic collection of Speedo swimwear. Glynis shares the experience of Museum conservators faced with deteriorating synthetic fibres and how a scientific approach an...d tailored conservation practises and storage technologies helped stabilise and protect the collection. In "Strictly Ballroom Returns", Curator Charles Pickett retraces the history of the iconic spectacle, from its 1984 debut as a NIDA student musical to its acclaimed 1992 movie incarnation, leading to the current exhibition of costumes, props, design drawings and photographs at the Powerhouse Museum, on until 9 November 2014. Find out more about the other stories in ICON Magazine Issue 4 on our website and join us tomorrow for a new sneak peek into the magazine.
05.01.2022 Imagine finding one of these during your Easter Egg Hunt! The "Memory of Azov" is one of the 50 jewelled eggs created by jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé and his company from 1885 to 1917. The most famous of these Fabergé Eggs were made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, as Easter gifts to their wives and mothers. 43 of these "Imperial" eggs are still in existence, and are jealously kept in private collections and museums around the world.... Happy Easter from everyone at ICON Magazine! **** Image: Wikipedia - Photo of "Memory of Azov Egg", taken August 2003 by Stan Shebs
05.01.2022 To celebrate the NSW Heritage Festival, we have teamed up with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to put together a competition with great prizes that ...give you the chance to experience the unique heritage of New South Wales. Prizes range from an all-inclusive long lunch at the gorgeous Vaucluse House Tearooms to year-round access to our national parks to explore their ancient bushlands. This is definitely a competition that all heritage lovers should be part of! The competition is open now and runs until 26 May. For more details on how to enter visit us online: http://bit.ly/HeritageWeek
04.01.2022 Fresh from yesterday's Venetian painting, we now have a look at Sydney Living Museums's "Celebrating Home and Architecture" article in ICON #4. Written by Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Assistant Director of Creative Services at Sydney Living Museums, the article outlines an exciting programme for architecture lovers in 2014. From "Iconic Australian Houses", currently on show at the Museum of Sydney, to "Sydney Open 2014", the Museums' biennial architecture event which will ope...n on 2 November, and one of the first major exhibitions on architect Harry Seidler, this article will have every architecture buff open up their calendars. Find out more about the contents of ICON Issue 4 on our website and subscribe online to receive the magazine directly at home. See you tomorrow for a new preview!
04.01.2022 Artefacts associated with Ned Kelly, shipwrecks and the developing 18th century Victorian upper-class: it's all happening in "Secret Lives, Forgotten Stories", opening today at the The Ian Potter Museum of Art: http://bit.ly/1qGr3wF For more exhibitions and events from all around Australia, bookmark the icon calendar http://bit.ly/17UadEl
04.01.2022 "Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Australia" is a participative project organised by the Queensland Museum & Sciencentre in partnership with The University of Queensland, designed to shed light on the individual experience of Queensland Diggers in France during World War 1. We recently interview Tracy Ryan, Senior Curator for Queensland Stories at the Queensland Museum, to learn more about this exciting project. Read more: http://bit.ly/1hQaBmg... *** Image: Paddy Letter This is a letter from soldier Patrick ‘Paddy’ Bugden to his mother in 1917, sent from ‘Somewhere’ in France. Courtesy of Queensland Museum
03.01.2022 Done! The 4th issue of ICON Magazine has just gone to the printer's. Here a sneak peak of the gorgeous cover from National Portrait Gallery's "PROMO" exhibition. Stay tuned for other previews until release on 5 May.
01.01.2022 Mother's Day happens just after ICON issue 4 comes out. Coincidence? We think not... For all those with an awesome art-loving mum, here is a 15% OFF COUPON on all subscriptions to ICON, to help you come up with an ever-renewed gift! Visit http://iconmagazine.com.au/subscribe/ to redeem your coupon and share it around!
01.01.2022 ICON issue 4 is shipping to our subscribers as we type this. Sorry again for the delay and hope you will enjoy this edition. You can find all about the contents on our website: bit.ly/RqEPre
01.01.2022 Not to be missed if you are anywhere near Melbourne!
01.01.2022 The long weekends have been good but have also thrown a bit of a spanner in our wheels. ICON has been delayed and we'll keep you posted when issue 4 comes out. Our apologies for the delay.
