Word: collectedness
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Behind every great photography show is the most merciless of picture editors. Such is the abundance of arresting images these days that the trick is knowing when to stop. And strikingly absent from the latest survey of contemporary Australian photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria until February 18, are...
He has a very slight chance, though any optimism is based more on his remarkable competitive qualities than a clear-eyed assessment of his form. Now ranked 20, Hewitt is having far more trouble than he used to winning those tight matches against solid but unexceptional players, and as such...
When McConnell was director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996, he left no doubt that he didn't particularly like the CIA. He didn't understand how the place worked. He didn't trust the information it collected from its clandestine sources (humint, as it's called...
As a collector, Monet had a sharp eye. Though he never went to Japan, he befriended writers, curators and art dealers who did, and they steered him toward quality. His treasures, all hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e - "images of the floating world" of geishas...
The Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe will always be closely identified with his compatriot, the novelist Yukio Mishima. Collected in the 1963 book Ordeal by Roses, Hosoe's intimate portraits of Mishima - with their air of sadomasochism and homoeroticism - have become iconic, and sprang[an error occurred while processing this directive...