Heide Museum of Modern Art

School Holiday Activities
Secret Garden Dioramas

10:00am - 1:00pm Tuesday 30 March 2010

Heide gardener Isabella Amouzandeh takes children on a tour of the various Heide gardens to inspire the construction of their own secret garden. Children use a variety of found objects and art materials to create dioramas. Suitable for ages 7-12.

Bookings essential, phone 9850 1500.

More information about Heide Education Programs

Tickets: Child $25, Heide member/Concession $20 (BYO smock, snack & drink)

Code: Sidney Myer Education Centre

Venue: Sidney Myer Education Centre

Exhibition tour
Postwar Cubism 1950-1979

2:00pm Tuesday 30 March 2010

Tickets: FREE (with admission)

Venue: Heide II

This exhibition explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide, the celebrated haven for progressive modernist artist and writers. Heide was the home and personal Eden of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most significant art benefactors. Settling on the fifteen acre property in 1935, the Reeds transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space. They extended their hospitality and resources to now-famous artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman and developed a culture of collaboration, eclecticism and idealism which helped change the course of Australian art.

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Cubism & Australian Art, one of the most ambitious and extensive exhibitions Heide has undertaken, shows the impact of the revolutionary and transformative movement of Cubism on Australian art from the early twentieth century to the present day. It uncovers a little-known yet compelling history through works by over eighty artists, including key examples of international Cubism drawn from Australian collections — by André Lhote, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Ben Nicholson and others — and nine decades of Australian modern and contemporary art that demonstrate a local evolution of cubist ideas.

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