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Sunday 30 November 2008
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Can you be a good artist and a bad person? That's the question that's come up over the past week in relation to the Australian painter Donald Friend, whose published diaries reveal some extraordinary confessions.
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What does furniture design have to do with the justice system? Well in Australia's first indigenous county court the two are intertwined. Last week, in Morwell in regional Victoria, the first stand-alone Koori county court was established. It's part of a pilot program to try to deal with the massive over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system.
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Picture this: an Aussie bloke with blonde hair and blue eyes, little bit chubby, dressed in white—with a cricket ball in one hand and a mobile phone in the other...
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Today's ISM is for anyone who's ever felt baffled by a work of art, who feels it's all meaningless, pretentious claptrap. Don't get it? Don't worry, you are not alone.
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Among the members of this orchestra there are surgeons, anaesthetists, GPs, ophthalmologists, oncologists, obstetricians—you name it, whatever kind of medical practitioner you can think of, they're probably here, because this is the Australian Doctors Orchestra.
Sunday 23 November 2008
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The Naked and the Nude is the name of a current show at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Victoria. It features paintings, drawings and sculpture of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition provides a serious exploration of the way in which the naked body has been portrayed in Australian art and the changing meanings associated with nudity.
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All of the major cities around Australia have state theatre companies. They are subsidised flagship theatres, charged with delivering the best Australian and overseas plays, both new and old.
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A new artwork has taken shape in the former exercise yard of the Old Melbourne Gaol, now the RMIT University Alumni Courtyard. Called 'We are Shipwrecked and Locked', it's the work of Martin Boyce, the Scottish entrant in the forthcoming Venice Biennale. He describes it as 'a strange sculptural desert island.'
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To coincide with 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism', the exhibition currently on at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, this week's ISM is from Julie Ewington, the show's curator. And the exhibition is on through to February next year.
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Today, a look at Australia's oldest indigenous publishing house. It's based in Alice Springs, at the Institute for Aboriginal Development—and the IAD Press is coming up to 40 years of publishing dictionaries and guides for Aboriginal languages, as well as oral histories and biographies.
Sunday 16 November 2008
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From the Hands of Our Ancestors is an exhibition about to open in Darwin, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Featuring the arts and crafts of East Timor, it's the first-ever international display of the national collection since independence.
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The Patrick White Award is an annual prize given to an Australian writer. Worth $30,000, it comes from a trust that Patrick White set up with the money he received from winning the Nobel prize for literature. It's awarded to a novelist or a poet or dramatist, whose work hasn't received the recognition it deserves.
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Last week on Artworks, Julie Copeland talked to the Sydney pathologist and art collector Colin Laverty about how you make a collection. This week Julie is taking the conversation further with him, to tease out ideas about the way we look at contemporary Aboriginal art -- as fine art, or as ethnographic art.
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Perhaps the most potent work of art symbolising the ideas implicit in Humanism is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, as God's outstretched finger reaches across space to touch Adam's. Jason Smith is the director of Heidi museum, and he is today's guide to humanism.
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The Artworks feature today is about Venice at the end of the eighteenth century -- and in particular one woman's story. Lucia Mocenigo was a high-born Venetian living through one of the most turbulent periods in European history. She's now best known as Lord Byron's landlady (she charged him a fortune to live in her crumbling palazzo -- and together they're largely responsible for creating the romantic, tourist image of Venice.)
Sunday 09 November 2008
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It seems a strange thing that there is an Australian playwright who's more famous in France than he is here. It's quite usual, for example, to see billboards in the Paris Metro advertising his plays on at the major theatres in Paris.
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Have you ever thought about becoming an art collector -- diverting whatever spare cash you can muster to purchases large or small?
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For the ISM in art today, we're heading to revolutionary Russia and a socio-musical paradox, neoclassicism. Taking us there is the musician and breakfast host on ABC FM, Emma Ayres.
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This Artworks feature is about a group of artists involved in the environmental catastrophe that is the Murray Darling Basin, with its dire water shortages, the death of ancient redgums, the desiccation of wetlands, and growers burning their orchards.
Sunday 02 November 2008
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Dr Stefano Carboni is the new director of The Art Gallery of Western Australia. He has just taken up the post fresh from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was curator and administrator of the Department of Islamic Art.
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In Melbourne, the Princes Bridge across the Yarra is the city's best-known river crossing. But if you head under this bridge there's a walkway on either side of the river and, at dusk, you'll find the place full of the sound of birds who fly in to nest there, and of trams and cars rumbling overhead.
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Today's ISM in Art is everybody's favourite -- Impressionism. Most of our ISMs so far come from the twentieth century, but Impressionism is ninteenth century and it refers to that loose group of artists whose paintings were considered too awful to be shown at the Paris Salon, so instead they showed their art independently. They painted outdoors, their subjects were contemporary and everyday, especially landscapes and still life.
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This is a story about the meeting of two cultures and much needed rain. Two dancers, David McMicken and Tim Newth, run the Darwin-based dance company Tracks. For the last twenty years, they've been working in the Tanami Desert with the Warlpiri people and particularly with Warlpiri elder Steve Tjampitjinpa. Their project is called Milpirri, and it began when Steve Tjampitjinpa approached Tim and David with the idea of creating a performance that would involve the whole community.
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Ancient tradition connected Herculaneum with the name of the Greek hero Herakles. It is the Greeks who named the city Herculaneum. But in 79 CE, along with its neighbour Pompeii, the rich Roman resort town of Herculaneum was buried under around 20 metres of lava, mud and ash by the catastrophic eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
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