Jaynie Anderson

‘How Good Were the Edwardians?’ by Jaynie Anderson

June-July 2004, no. 262 • 01 June 2004

In Australia, Edwardian architecture has a permanent presence in our consciousness, for it has survived here better than elsewhere. It is a constant reminder of the luxurious elegance of those years, and so it comes as no surprise that such a novel exhibition has been conceived. The first survey exhibition on Edwardian art, at the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Anna Gray, is a revelatio ... (read more)

‘Gallery Notes’ by Jaynie Anderson

May 2005, no. 271 • 01 May 2005

What should an Australian museum collect? How should permanent collections affect exhibition policy? Who should decide what to buy? These are three provocative questions raised by the current survey of English art over several centuries at the Art Gallery of South Australia, an exhibition drawn exclusively from its permanent collection. From the third decade of the nineteenth century, British art ... (read more)

Cross-cultural encounters by Jaynie Anderson

November 2006, no. 286 • 01 November 2006

An exhibition with considerable radical chic, Cook’s Pacific Encounters, currently at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, has stimulated a series of cross-cultural debates at an international conference on the collections made by Captain James Cook and his fellow voyagers (arranged by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, on July 28). Although there were several centuries of ... (read more)

Jaynie Anderson reviews ‘The Outsider: A Portrait of Ursula Hoff’ by Colin Holden

September 2009, no. 314 • 01 September 2009

At first glance, the life of an art historian, often depressed in the latter decades of her life, might not yield a compelling book. But Colin Holden’s perusal of Ursula Hoff’s previously unknown diaries has produced a passionate and valuable portrayal of a scholar wrestling with the challenge of buying works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria, in London. The biography is based on Hof ... (read more)

'How ignorant we are' by Jaynie Anderson

November 2007, no. 296 • 01 November 2007

As convenor of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (January 2008), I have become increasingly aware of what others want to know about Australia and of the gaps in our agenda. It is equally clear that there is much that we do very well that is not yet recognised internationally. What do Australian museums collect, and what sort of future are they creating for art ... (read more)

Jaynie Anderson reviews 'Albert Tucker' by Gavin Fry

October 2006, no. 285 • 01 October 2007

Handsomely illustrated, beautifully produced and authoritatively written, Gavin Fry’s monograph on Albert Tucker aims to establish him as an important artist within the Australian twentieth-century canon. Fry begins his introduction with the statement that Tucker ‘was a man who inspired strong feelings and his work likewise required the viewer to make a stand. Many found his work difficult, so ... (read more)