Take Five: Including Candide and Nuclear Family

By Guy Somerset In Take Five

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28th July, 2012
1 Sydney has already had Christian Marclay’s magnificent 24-hour video installation The Clock and later in 2012 can boast (not that Australians are given to boasting) a Francis Bacon retrospective and an Anish Kapoor exhibition. It’s going to be an expensive year for art aficionados, paying for all those transtasman airfares, with PORTRAIT OF SPAIN: MASTERPIECES FROM THE PRADO now at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. The exhibition, from the European collection of Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, features over 100 paintings by El Greco, Velázquez, Titian, ...

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