October 2011
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Andrew Bolt and the making of an opportunist
The Bolt factor
The rush to diagnose ADHD
A guide to the Murray Darling Basin
The Nation Reviewed
The Book Show and Ramona Koval
To call up in oneself a feeling once experienced and, having called it up, to convey it by means of movements, lines, colours, sounds, images expressed in words, so that others experience the same feeling – in this consists the activity of art. – Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
Julia Gillard, foreign policy and the summit season
Amelia Lester
Theatre in the Kimberley
A dining experience at Hobart’s Garagistes
Arts & Letters
Romance was born - ‘The Oracle’, 2011
Tom Wright & Benedict Andrews - ‘The War of the Roses’, 2009
Graeme Murphy - ‘Swan Lake’, 2002
Shaun Gladwell - ‘Storm Sequence’, 2000
Mike Parr - ‘Close the Concentration Camps’, 2002
Visual art (three-dimensional) masterpiece
Hany Armanious & Mary Teague - ‘Lines of Communication’, 2010
Visual art (two-dimensional) masterpiece
Brian Blanchflower - ‘Canopy LI (Scelsi I–IV)’, 2001
Lindsay & Kerry Clare - ‘Gallery of Modern Art’, Queensland, 2006
Marc Newson - ‘Qantas A380 Economy Seat’, 2008
Rolf de Heer - ‘The Tracker’, 2002
Chris Lilley - ‘Summer Heights High’, 2007
Contemporary dance masterpiece
Tanja Liedtke - ‘construct’, 2007
An Australian–Indonesian production - ‘The Theft of Sita’, 2000
Justin Hamilton - ‘Circular’, 2011
Sarah Blasko - ‘As Day Follows Night’, 2009
James Ledger - ‘Chronicles’, 2009
Ten Part Invention - ‘Unidentified Spaces’, 2001
Neil Armfield - ‘Peter Grimes’, 2009
JM Coetzee - ‘Summertime’, 2009
Jennifer Maiden - ‘Friendly Fire’, 2005
Meeting Glenn Murcutt
Meeting Meow Meow
A correspondence with Clive James
Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois
John Bell’s ‘On Shakespeare’
Meeting Andrew Fraser
Daniel Nettheim’s ‘The Hunter’ and Anh Hung Tran’s ‘Norwegian Wood’
Girls’s ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’
Meeting Mary Finsterer
Noted
What’s in a face? Aspects of portrait photography Art Gallery of NSW - 24 September 2011 to 5 February 2012
