Millionplus Australian real estate for saleIn 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born archbishop of Melbourne. Tall, gaunt and magisterial, Mannix was already ancient. Born in 1864, he had become a contentious ecclesiastical figure in the Irish nationalist movement. Shipped to Australia, his stand against conscription led to demands for his deportation. In 1920, the Royal Navy prevented him landing in his insurgent homeland and he returned to Australia,...
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SlowTV: Public text, stolen text. Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth | Sydney | Feb. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 Joseph Kosuth has been acknowledged as a pre-eminent international figure in conceptual art since the 1960s. Since creating One and three tables (1965), Kosuth has been celebrated for his outstanding text and light works in architectural settings all over the world. In this lecture t... » play video -
SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Elizabeth Presa on Auguste Rodin
Elisabeth Presa | Melbourne | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 After failing to gain admittance to art school, Auguste Rodin worked for many years in obscurity. Yet by the turn of the 20th century Rodin dominated sculpture in France. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who worked as Rodin’s secretary, offered unique insights into how the sculptor ‘... » play video -
SlowTV: Geoffrey Rush on a career in film and theatre
Geoffrey Rush | Melbourne | Aug. 2009
"In the early sixties... Australian adults were apparently moping around hunched and culturally cringing, looking like a John Brack painting, or being beguiled by Menzies into the afternoon light of a long rather bland Presbyterian kind of day... The arts landscape, if not bleak, was certainly b... » play video -
SlowTV: Oron Catts on designing the future of the semi-living
Oron Catts | Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Artist Oron Catts, speaking at the State of Design Festival, tells of his truly innovative and ethically challenging work - designing with living tissue. His organisation SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia is the first research laboratory of its kind, enabling a critique of life scien... » play video -
SlowTV: The rise of contemporary Chinese art. Chaired by Chris McAuliffe
Melbourne | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3This Festival of Ideas (University of Melbourne) session, chaired by Chris McAuliffe, looks at the phenomenal recent rise of contemporary Chinese art. Geremie Barme and Claire Roberts take a tour of the most significant works, artists and events of the past three decades, and... » play video -
SlowTV: The studio portrait: artists at work. Andrew Sayers
Andrew Sayer | Melbourne | Apr. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2Rothko observed that 'all painting is portraiture... and, in a way, all studios are portraits'. The portrait of an artist at work in his or her studio is a time-honoured tradition. In this intimate and insightful talk Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, g... » play video -
SlowTV: David Marr on The Henson Case
David Marr | Melbourne | Oct. 2008
Journalist and writer David Marr speaks passionately and intelligently about the recent sagas involving photographer Bill Henson, which are the subject of his new book, The Henson Case.Presented by Readings at Cinema Nova.Melbourne, October 2008... » play video -
SlowTV: Mike Parr at the Biennale of Sydney
Mike Parr | Sydney | Sep. 2008
Artist Mike Parr, speaking outside his Cockatoo Island exhibition space at the Biennale of Sydney, discusses the themes and influences of his body of work on display at the Biennale. His talk takes us through the various stages of his often controversial career, as well as his methods of art creatio... » play video -
SlowTV: Dollar Dreaming: NY Times critic Ben Genocchio on the Aboriginal art world
Ben Genocchio | Melbourne | Aug. 2008
Australian author, essayist and art critic (New York Times) Ben Genocchio discusses his new book on the world of Aboriginal art, Dollar Dreaming, with Age art critic Robert Nelson. He talks about its economic aspects as well as his experience interviewing curators, collectors, gallery owners, and tr... » play video -
SlowTV: Biennale of Sydney artists TV Moore and Stuart Ringholt in conversation
Stuart Ringholt | Sydney | Jul. 2008
In this unguarded and insightful conversation, TV Moore and Stuart Ringholt discuss their respective contributions to the 2008 Biennale of Sydney: the genesis of these works, the broader artistic themes and concepts behind them and their execution. Sydney, June 2008 ... » play video
