CULTURE: Masterpieces
CULTURE
'Cloudstreet' By Matthew Saville
MJ Hyland
Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a compassionate masterpiece, which is to Australians what George Orwell’s 1984 is to the English and Harper Lee...
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The Alchemist: Alfred Stieglitz’s Lake George Years
Peter Conrad
Alfred Stieglitz was the kind of man that Australia, more’s the pity, has never had. Here prophets come from the desert, as AD Hope once...
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Bright Stars: John Keats and Fanny Brawne Revisited
Sophie Gee
John Keats’s last letter is just about his most powerful piece of writing. He was in Rome, dying of tuberculosis. He’d gone there in a...
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As You Like It: An interview with Geoffrey Rush
Peter Craven
Geoffrey Rush's last appearance on an Australian stage was in 2002, with Life x 3, in which he and his wife, Jane Menelaus, transfigured...
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'Albrecht Dürer: Master of the Renaissance' NGV International
Justin Clemens
If the gap between PR claim and reality is notoriously vast, this is one promo that tells it like it is: the National Gallery of Victoria...
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Twitter
@THEMONTHLY @SLOWTV
The War on Whingeing has begun, and @GMegalogenis must be breaking some kind of record on his blog today: http://t.co/V4OiQotJ #13hourslater
Thursday, 24 May 2012 - 10:20pm
Now free online – Robert Manne spends one morning with @TurnbullMalcolm, the leader plenty of voters still want: http://t.co/vrCExhRy
Thursday, 24 May 2012 - 7:25pm
“I want to know if my hair is just like yours” – the boy who patted Obama's head. Via @ShortlistDaily: http://t.co/uHe1c6cX
Thursday, 24 May 2012 - 4:11pm
Thrillseeker of the year. Wing-suited man jumps out of chopper, no chute, from 2400ft: (video) http://t.co/CcI8xlFu
Thursday, 24 May 2012 - 4:05pm
