October 2011
MEDIA
The Bolt Factor: Andrew Bolt and the Making of an Opportunist
Anne Summers
At one minute past midnight on 30 August, Andrew Bolt posted the following tantalising words on his blog: “No politics until further notice...
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The Monthly
FASHION Romance Was Born ‘The Oracle’, 2011 ‘The Oracle’, the fifth major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had...
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CULTURE
Fathers & Sons: Meeting Glenn Murcutt
Peter Robb
So Architects do square and hew, Green Trees that in the Forest grew. It was a long day on the road. We covered 675 kilometres of highway,...
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WORLD
Robert Helpmann & Anna Pavlova
Little Bobbie Helpman was a delicate infant. On doctor’s orders, anything liable to make him cry was forbidden. His adoring mother, a woman...
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CULTURE
What’s in a Face? Aspects of Portrait Photography: Art Gallery of NSW - 24 September 2011 to 5 February 2012
Sebastian Smee
What can you read into a photograph of a face? Hurt. Happiness. Confidence. Contempt. There’s no limit. Indeed, if you’re anything like me...
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CULTURE
'Autumn Laing' By Alex Miller
Janine Burke
The Heide mythos, which has grown from the circle that gathered around arts patrons Sunday and John Reed at their home in Victoria’s Yarra...
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CULTURE
'The Street Sweeper' By Elliot Perlman
Kirsten Tranter
Elliot Perlman’s new novel, set in New York, traces the unlikely lines of connection between a set of characters from a broad social and...
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CULTURE
What Happens Next: Meeting Mary Finsterer
Andrew Ford
Mary Finsterer says she wants to write a Mass. As one of Australia’s finest composers, she’s entitled; composers have been making new...
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Out of the Bay: Girls’s 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
Robert Forster
Girls are a two-piece band out of San Francisco who write and sing songs about loneliness, heartbreak, the fuzzy disconnect around rock’n’...
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CULTURE
Taking to the Woods: Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter and Anh Hung Tran’s Norwegian Wood
John Collee
Shot in some of Tasmania’s most breathtaking wilderness, The Hunter (in national release) tells the story of an American mercenary (Willem...
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CULTURE
Line of Appeal: Meeting Andrew Fraser
Jack Marx
There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the...
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CULTURE
Bowing to the Bard: John Bell’s 'On Shakespeare'
Louis Nowra
Watching him rehearse was one of the most fascinating experiences I’ve had in the theatre. In 1980 John Bell was playing the protagonist in...
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CULTURE
Bodying Forth: Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois
Drusilla Modjeska
The bodies of old women are rarely celebrated in art, and representations of them are few. The faces of older women who’ve achieved status...
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SOCIETY
Clean As You Go: A Correspondence with Clive James
Paola Totaro
Unfortunately my health is indecent at the moment. I’m in Addenbrooke’s being seen to but I should be back in London next week and I’ll...
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CULTURE
Queen of the Night: Meeting Meow Meow
Peter Conrad
Allergic as I am to cats, whose fur causes my eyes to water and chokes my air passages, I have to admit a guarded fondness for Meow Meow,...
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CULTURE
Poetry Masterpiece: Jennifer Maiden - 'Friendly Fire', 2005
Lisa Gorton
Jennifer Maiden’s fourteenth poetry collection is a masterpiece in the original sense of that word: fantastical, intelligent, unassuming...
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CULTURE
Fiction Masterpiece: JM Coetzee - 'Summertime', 2009
Geordie Williamson
Is it a cheat to suggest this quasi-memoir by a South African–born Nobel Prize winner as the best work of Australian fiction since the dawn...
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CULTURE
Opera Masterpiece: Neil Armfield - 'Peter Grimes', 2009
Peter McCallum
When Opera Australia staged Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes in 2009 (co-produced with Western Australian Opera and Houston Grand Opera),...
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CULTURE
Jazz Masterpiece: Ten Part Invention - 'Unidentified Spaces', 2001
John Clare
Ten Part Invention is a Sydney band formed more than 20 years ago to perform Australian jazz music. It still has a solid, often ecstatic,...
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CULTURE
Classical Masterpiece: James Ledger - 'Chronicles', 2009
Andrew Ford
It has been a good start to the twenty-first century for Australian composers and correspondingly hard to pick a single masterpiece. Anyway...
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