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Alan R. Dodge

Alan R. Dodge

Alan R. Dodge has been in the art museum business for over thirty-eight years. He came to Australia in 1974 from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. where he was an education curator. In Canberra he was one of the early staff of the new Australian National Gallery (now NGA) first as Senior Research officer, then as head of publications, Curator of European and American Art, and Senior Advisor, Special Exhibitions and Development. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, a position he held for eleven years before retiring in late 2007. He was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2004 and was made an AM in the Order of Australia in 2008. Currently he acts as an Art Adviser and is a member of six boards and Chair of the Murdoch University Art Board. Over the last two decades he has pursued an intense interest in Russian art and culture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Alan Dodge reviews 'Notebooks' by Betty Churcher

June 2011, no. 332 24 May 2011
In May 1990, Betty Churcher, then director of the National Gallery of Australia, Bill Wright, deputy director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and I stood outside what had once been the seat of Count Ostermann. This impressive building sits right off the Garden Ring, which surrounds inner Moscow. It is now the All-Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum. All three of us, on our first ... (read more)

Alan R. Dodge reviews 'Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume' by Robert Bell

March 2011, no. 329 01 March 2011
What is it about the Ballets Russes that resonates with so many people? Is it the magic of a redeemed art ordained in a marriage of artists, dancers, and composers overseen by a master celebrant – Sergei Diaghilev? Is it remembrance of a creative fire that burst onto the stage in 1909 and assured a strong future for ballet around the world? The answer is ‘yes’ to both, but I think that what ... (read more)