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  • Children’s Art Centre Exhibitions

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    Tanya Heading

    Having a 20 month old toddler, I know how challenging it can be coming up with new and exciting activities for kids… especially when it’s raining! This said, I have to share with you my weekend visit to the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). They have a great interactive kids exhibition running at the moment called Yayoi…

  • Matisse ‘Up Late’

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    ‘Up late‘ is back at GOMA with the current Matisse: Drawing Life exhibit, running from 20 January-2 March 2012 on Fridays 5.30-10pm. With an exciting line-up planned…. This Friday 3 February 8.30pm Tyrone Noonan (AUS/USA) – originally from Brisbane 🙂 10 February Brous (AUS) 17 February Jason Lytle (USA) 24 February Halfway (AUS) 2 March…

  • Matisse at GOMA

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Art lovers will agree that Henri Matisse was an artist of classical greatness. His career was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction. Early on in his career, he was viewed as a Fauvist, and his celebration of bright colours reached its peak in 1917 when he began…

  • Celebrate Italian Week in Brisbane

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The flavours, fashion and flair of Italy will be celebrated during Italian Week in Brisbane from 26 May – 2 June. To coincide with the week, at Brio Group we’re excited to launch Optical FX’s new website, which gives a nod to the much-loved European country. If you’re near Mary Street during Italian Week, pop…

  • Let there be rock

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Lovers of rock can swap stage for cinema during the upcoming Let There Be Rock program at the Gallery of Modern Art’s Cinémathèque. Featuring more than 45 documentaries, concert movies and feature films capturing the rebellious spirit of rock music, Let There Be Rock surveys more than 50 years of music on the big screen. Audiences can expect…

  • Surrealism exhibition to open at GoMA

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major survey exhibition showing at GoMA from June 11 to October 2, 2011. The exhibition will include more than 180…

  • Brisbane art galleries re-open after floods

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Queensland floods have put life on temporary hold for many people and businesses whilst the rebuild continues. Thankfully, life in Brisbane’s art world has now stirred with the re-opening of Brisbane’s premier art venues, The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), last week. The doors burst open to welcome the art-loving…

  • GoMA launches 21st Century: Art in the First Decade

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Two spiralling steel slides, a sound installation created by live finches, a swimming pool, a room filled with balloons, and a giant installation of coloured plastic bags are centrepieces of a major free exhibition of contemporary art from around the world at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). These installations by internationally acclaimed artists are…

  • Spend Friday nights at GoMA’s Up Late

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    When 5pm rolls around each Friday, what do you do? a) Head to a city bar and muse over the working week with colleagues and a bottle or two of vino? b) Drive straight home and settle in for an evening of TV and takeaway? c) Or… do you spend the evening longing to find…