TALKING SHOP: BALLARAT IN BUSINESS AND CITY LIFE, historic photographs, advertisements and ephemera, exploring the shops and businesses of Ballarat’s past, and contemporary photographs from The … [Read more...]
WAVING THE RED FLAG: CHINESE POSTERS 1949-1976
FROM 18 JULY IN CANBERRA, POSTER EXHIBITION at the National Library of Australia, running until 12 February 2018, WAVING THE RED FLAG: CHINESE POSTERS 1949-1976. The authorities in the early … [Read more...]
The Urgent Protest Art of the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop
HERE IS AN ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE ABOUT AN EXHIBITION FROM A POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP AT BERKELEY, IN CALIFORNIA, IN 1970. We have reproduced the article … [Read more...]
Visit Sherlock Holmes’ “museum”
THERE IS A CREATION OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES' FLAT IN LONDON, that looks to the era and also to current incarnations of the detective. The rooms are decorated with the famous pipe, violin, and … [Read more...]
Laughter lines and other distractions
Everybody knows what a comic is. We’ve all read them, laughed at them and enjoyed them. A few well-chosen images can transport meaning across language barriers. Threads of humour are teased from … [Read more...]
Theatrical traditions: stage and screen in Bendigo
LOOK AT THEATRE AND MOVIE EPHEMERA FROM GOLDEN BENDIGO. Western theatrical traditions came to Bendigo with fortune seekers in the 1850s. Since then, everything from amateur to professional, … [Read more...]
Theatre of the book exhibition
LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE GOING TO ADELAIDE, check out this pop-up book exhibition. Here is what the State Library of South Australia says about the exhibition: On display in the Treasures Wall, … [Read more...]
Exhibition – Nail Can to Knighthood
LOCAL CHOCOLATE MAN, AND HIS ORIGINS AND OTHER SUCCESSES ARE ON DISPLAY IN MELBOURNE AT THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. (These images are not from the exhibition.) The Royal Historical … [Read more...]
Love & Sorrow Exhibition at The Museum of Victoria (Carlton site)
VISITORS ARE RAVING ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION ON AT THE MELBOURNE MUSEUM. It is about the World War 1 experience of Victorians - fighting, injured, recovering, home front, opposition to the … [Read more...]