Tom VaughanMay 123 min readAgainst the clock; a review of Mark di Suvero's Ik OokFig. 1 Mark di Suvero, "Ik Ook," painted steel, 1971-72, National Gallery of Australia. As the wind billows on a cool spring day, Mark di...
Tom VaughanMay 1211 min readA Welcome to the Kingdom of Louis XIV: An Artistic Vision of Absolutism in the French Court.“No artistic style is more directly expressive of the political ambitions and achievements of a monarch than that named after Louis XIV...
Tom VaughanMay 126 min readCanberra and the Everywhen“One cannot ‘fix’ The Dreaming in time: it was, and is, everywhen.”[1] First Nations art is not simply a representation of what was or...
Tom VaughanMay 125 min readA colourful world - A review of Angelica Kauffman's 'Colour.'The artist reaches to the sky, where a rainbow sits; incomprehensibly tangible to the artist. Does she use her paintbrush to complete the ra