on a hot day, its indoor garden offers a refuge from the art world mayhem. But Denton reminds me that the Nordic pavilion is also notoriously problematic as a space in which to show art – its ostensible purpose. ... overshadowed the architecture of art spaces far beyond the confines of Venice and the world’s oldest ...

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(Antony Gormley, Art, Fine Arts, Sculpture, My Modern Met) ...

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(May 2012, Arts & Letters, Belvoir St Theatre, Simon Stone) ...

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(May 2012, Arts & Letters, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, Tim Birkhead) ...

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2012, Arts & Letters, Jane Birkin, Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg) ...

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It was Winston Churchill who famously refused to cut funding to the arts to pay for more Spitfires and destroyers during the grimmest days of World War II, demanding of his art-hating, penny-pinching advisers ... with the latest barbarian to take the helm of Queensland. A quote Kevin Spacey cited in defence of American arts ...

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(May 2012, Arts & Letters, Audrey Tautou, David Foenkino, Delicacy, Freida Pinto, Michael ...

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Robyn Annear It comes as a surprise to realise that The Mountain is Drusilla Modjeska’s first novel, since her writing – acclaimed and awarded as non-fiction – has always inha ...

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Chris Grosz Shane Maloney By 1829, Truganini was running out of options. Her mother had been stabbed to death by a sailor, her u ...

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Mandy Sayer In cinema, no happy holiday can go unpunished. Wish You Were Here opens with a fast-paced prologue set in Cambodia, a riot of images and colour that views as a con ...

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John Kinsella Since the broader recognition of Born Sandy Devotional as one of the great Australian albums, there have been several publications relating to the definitively W ...

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Karen Hitchcock The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. There are books, magazines, word games, phonetics, grammar less ...

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earlier. Which in Athens then was an age, an aeon in art. She was a painting, he was a statue. A kouros ...

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On the origin of the arts " Picasso expressed the idea summarily: 'Art is the lie that helps us to see the truth.'  The creative arts became possible as an evolutionary advance when humans developed the capacity for abstract ...

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Drusilla Modjeska Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Circular Quay West re-opened on 29 March with a new wing, as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Abutting the old ...

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for Damien Hirst? The people behind some of Britain's best known art share their highs - and lows." ... (Art, Fine Arts, Guardian) ...

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and there was a great deal of ecstasy in the arts industry too: a notable lack of pre-emptive poppy-lopping, the genuine ... The story is clearly tragic and yet Life in Movement , the new documentary about Liedtke’s life and art ... (April 2012, Noted, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Tanja Liedtke) ...

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in the Faculties of Arts and Law at the University of Sydney, the address was given by the newly appointed ... (gough whitlam enoch powell) (April 2012, Encounters, Arts, Enoch Powell, Gough Whitlam, University ...

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Grace Kelly’s Gowns in Bendigo Catherine Ford On a recent March morning, the air over Bendigo Art Gallery ... the collection, along with H Kristina Haugland, author and curator from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; all three ...

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(Art, Painting, Portrait painting, Sydney Morning Herald) ...

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at their sides. The effect of this stripped-back style, as in all minimalist art that’s any good, is to draw ...

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Aztec Music’s Archaelogical Dig Richard Guilliatt The ’60s, so the saying goes, didn’t start in Australia unti ...

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John Strehlow’s 'The Tale of Frieda Keysser' Peter Sutton Among a right-thinking crowd you can still ...

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EL James’ 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Malcolm Knox When a new book series emerges from the swill of onlin ...

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Michelle de Kretser The publication of an unfinished draft is the writer’s version of that nightmare in which you find yourself naked in the street. Writers donate manuscripts to ...

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