NGV Triennial 2020
With a mix of eye-catching works, the second NGV Triennial blends the avant-garde with the populist
October 2012
Arts & Letters
The Best of Australian Arts 2012
Healing story
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Spirit’ pays tribute to collaborators
‘Jack’ by Marilynne Robinson
History and suffering matter in the latest instalment of the American author’s Gilead novels
‘The Dry’ directed by Robert Connolly
Eric Bana stars as a troubled investigator dragged back to his home town in a sombre Australian thriller
Dividing the Tasman: ‘Empire and the Making of Native Title’
Historian Bain Attwood examines the different approaches to sovereignty in the New Zealand and Australian settlements
Shirley Hazzard’s wider world
The celebrated Australian author’s ‘Collected Stories’ sets private desperation in the cosmopolitan Europe she revered
Citizen plain: ‘Mank’
David Fincher’s biopic of Orson Welles’s collaborating writer favours technique over heart
Ready steady gone
The passing of its figureheads underscores pop music’s waning influence on personal identity
NGV Triennial 2020
With a mix of eye-catching works, the second NGV Triennial blends the avant-garde with the populistHealing story
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Spirit’ pays tribute to collaborators
Deep cuts: ‘Small Axe’
Black solidarity is a palpable force throughout Steve McQueen’s five-film anthology
Distortion nation
Why are we more outraged by cheating cricketers than alleged war crimes in Afghanistan?
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