CULTURE: Arts
Bin Laden
The Art of Ideas: Wim Delvoye at MONA
Amanda Lohrey
The phenomenon that is Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a Plato’s cave of multi-layered subterranean space where shadows of the...
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Japan
The Bride Wore Black: Akira Isogawa
Peter Robb
Think ‘dress designer’ and what comes to mind? Not a whole lot of fun. Think of the last picture you saw of Karl Lagerfeld or John Galliano...
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CULTURE
Comment: ABC’s The Book Show and Ramona Koval
Don Watson
Still, it might be apt enough for the ABC. What nobler ambitions does the national broadcaster have than uniting Australians in their...
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SOCIETY
Bread and Butter
Gay Bilson
For dessert we ate hot puff pastry with a filling of grated apple cooked with butter, eggs and lemon. It pleased the guests, although one...
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A Law That Cannot Be Enforced: The Politics of Art in Australia
Justin Clemens
Last year, in the mid-afternoon of 1 August, I snuck into the Melbourne Art Fair before it officially opened. I wanted to poke around, see...
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CULTURE
I Heart New Yorker: Amelia Lester
Christine Kenneally
Amelia Lester’s ‘fearlessness’ sounds Australian. Her ‘integrate’ sounds American, and her ‘loved’ – as in, “I loved growing up in Sydney...
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Sunshine State: The radiance before the disaster. The indomitable St Petersburgers.
Justin Clemens
Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as a “window to the West”, St Petersburg quickly became, according to Alexander Pushkin, “the jewel of...
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SOCIETY
Who’s Afraid of Marcia Langton?
Peter Robb
Marcia Langton has a longer and more various history than Pearson, and is a lot harder to place. She is 14 years older, a grandmother...
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CULTURE
Literary Criticism: Why and How?: Simon Leys
Simon Leys
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit....
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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
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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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
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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CULTURE
Architecture Masterpiece: Lindsay & Kerry Clare - 'Gallery of Modern Art', Queensland, 2006
Nowadays ‘masterpiece’ refers to a work of extraordinary artistic merit. But it once described a work by a craftsman made specifically to...
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CULTURE
Visual Art (Two-Dimensional) Masterpiece: Brian Blanchflower - 'Canopy LI (Scelsi I–IV)', 2001
Anthony Bond
Brian Blanchflower is one of the most important painters in the world today and yet he is largely overlooked outside his native Perth. His...
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WORLD
Lessons in Unlearning: Peter Robb on Shaun Gladwell
Peter Robb
When the Olympic Games came to Sydney in 2000 I decided to rent a TV and watch some. Tweaking the rabbit’s ears – no time for an antenna –...
More ...The Work of Catfish: Lian Hearn Reflects on Japan
Lian Hearn
The dark wave rises, and keeps on rising like the sea in a nightmare. Ships cascade over a wall built to protect the port town from...
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CULTURE
The written death. Garner, Maloney, Sparrow, Walker (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Presented by the Wheeler Centre in partnership with the Melbourne Intl Arts Festival, the Matter of Life and Death series...
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CULTURE
The written death. Garner, Maloney, Sparrow, Walker
Part 1 | Part 2 Presented by the Wheeler Centre in partnership with the Melbourne Intl Arts Festival, the Matter of Life and Death series...
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7 February 2012
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