Indigenous Dot Paintings To Go On Show In Beijing

Paintings from the indigenous community of Papanyu will go on show in Beijing, at the National Art Museum of China.

The exhibition is called "Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert".

Amongst the exhibits is the 1975 painting "Honey Ant Hunt" by Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri.

The collection, which is made up of 48 pieces of art as well as 18 artefacts, traces the story of the Papunya Tula art movement between 1974 and 1981. The movement established Australian indigenous art in the contemporary art world. It created big names such as Clifford Possum and Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri.

(source: The Age, 19th May 2010)

Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibit: The Modern Century

Henri Cartier-Bresson's "The Modern Century" exhibit will be opening tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art.

It's the first American retrospective in 30 years. If you can, this would be fantastic to attend.

Otherwise, sit back, relax, and enjoy the slideshow by visiting: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/cartier-bressons-modern-century-at-moma/ FOR CARTIER-BRESSON PHOTOS

The review by the Times Art critic, Holland Carter is an enriching angle on it too, as he begins: "For much of his long career as a photojournalist, which began in the 1930s and officially ended three decades before his death in 2004, Cartier-Bresson was compulsively on the move. By plane, train, bus, car, bicycle, rickshaw, horse, and on foot, he covered the better part of five continents, in a tangled, crisscrossing itinerary of arcs and spurts."