Today we’re previewing to media some of the costumes and props that have arrived to feature in the upcoming exhibition ‘Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from 27 May to 3 September 2017. The costumes of Marvel characters Captain America, Thor and The Ancient One will feature among over…
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This week the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) welcomed its 500,000th visitor to our 10th anniversary program headlined by our major exhibition ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything’ on view until Monday 17 April 2017. ‘Sugar Spin’ showcases GOMA’s extraordinary collection of contemporary art, as well as major new commissions. GOMA’s 10th anniversary program…
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Cynical and seductive, film noir was born in the ashes of the Great Depression and fuelled by disillusionment and the paranoia of the postwar era. Film noir is one of the most visually seductive and enduring cinematic styles, conjuring evocative images of hard-eyed femme fatales lounging in smoky dive bars, and the down-on-his-luck private eye…
Celebrating the work of three pioneering artists who made distinguished contributions to the development of international modernism. All born in the late nineteenth century, American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith came of age during the 1910s and ’20s, decades of great social and cultural transition. While they were…
QAGOMA’s partnership with UNIQLO celebrates both the first anniversary of its Brisbane Queen Street store opening and GOMA’s tenth anniversary. Both anniversaries are a milestone as they provide the opportunity to show what really makes Brisbane the magnetic, vibrant city it is. Besides the display of QAGOMA art merchandise at UNIQLO, the Gallery in turn is…
In her installation Noon-nom 2016 Pinaree Sanpitak brings the bodily form together with the spiritual. While the artist’s practice has always evoked the human body, it was not until her son was born that she began focusing on the breast as a sacred and nurturing form. The similarities between the shape of a woman’s breast…
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