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Brave New World: Australia 1930s, Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art


5 Aug 2017
Brave New World: Australia 1930s, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia 14 Jul - 15 Oct 2017 Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art 20 Apr - 8 Oct 2017

Brave New World: Australia 1930s and Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art are both important new museum shows. They involve a serious investment of institutional resources. They demand great curatorial expertise. They make a number of significant art-historical finds and equally propose a number of tough-minded art-historical exclusions. They are, in their various ways, polemical. They change, even if only subtly, our previous understandings of Australian art.

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