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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Cleopatra late 1630s, red chalk,
British Museum, London
Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure
20 November 1999 – 27 February 2000
PUBLICATIONS
The record-breaking success of the Gallery Shop this
year has a great deal to do with in-house publications.
Enlarged and in its new location - with satellite exhibition
shops as appropriate - the Gallery Shop turnover was
$4.1 million – the highest of any museum shop in
Australia. And $1.2 million of this amount was revenue
from Art Gallery publications which are distributed
nationally and internationally. Funds raised from the
Gallery Shop, for which exhibition merchandising is
becoming an important source of revenue, go directly to
Art Gallery acquisitions to expand the collection.
Publications over the past 12 months include the
vivid catalogue for the Jeffrey Smart retrospective by
Edmund Capon with Barry Pearce and Peter Quartermaine
- 19,500 copies printed in three editions - the elegant
catalogue accompanying Fragrant Space by the exhibition’s
curator Liu Yang and the Asian art department, and the
254-page catalogue for Michelangelo to Matisse by
Terence Maloon and Peter Raissis.
An earlier catalogue - for the Art Gallery exhibition
Body – won the inaugural Power Institute Award for the
best work of art history of the previous two years, judged
by an independent jury administered by the Art Association
of Australia and New Zealand. Two other Art Gallery
Life drawing class in the Art Gallery held in conjunction with
the Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure exhibition
titles, Dancing to the Flute by Jackie Menzies and
Orientalism, were runners up.
Body and Fragrant Space are among the Art Gallery
titles to be found in US bookshops. The major publications
are distributed nationally and internationally by Thames
and Hudson Ltd, which gives them a good profile in major
museum shops and bookshops in Britain and Europe.
A full list of Art Gallery publications printed this
year, and those available from previous years, is published
in the appendices.
NEW AUDIENCES
Energetic and imaginative ventures to win new
audiences included the 2000 Sporting Portrait Prize,
sponsored by the Daily Telegraph and judged by media
identities Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson with the director,
Edmund Capon. In a different mood, tours of the Royal
Botanical Gardens were organised to view the birds and
flowers represented in Fragrant Space.
Highlights of the diverse range of public programmes
were the international symposia accompanying major
temporary exhibitions, including Drawing the Figure in
conjunction with Michelangelo to Matisse and Intellect is
International and Connecting Flights for the Biennale of
Sydney. Masterclasses for Higher School Certificate
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