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Sunday 24 August 2008
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Young lives, brilliant careers—interrupted and changed by war and revolution. This is a theme that has long interested Robyn Archer and which inspired the one-woman shows she did in the 1970s: A Star Is Torn and Tonight Lola Blau.
When you think of Aboriginal art, you tend to think of traditional styles—say the dot paintings of the desert artists, or maybe the more figurative contemporary work of urban artists. But the Indigenous art of Far North Queensland isn't really either of these things—it's not urban, but it's not really traditional either.
At the grand finale of the Bejing Olympic Games, Amanda Smith's special subject is Olympism—or more especially the art of Olympism.
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This Artworks feature is all about the recorder and, most especially, it's about one man, Fred Morgan, who for a time made the world's most beautiful recorders.
As you may recall the 2007 Indigenous art Senate inquiry found widespread and organised abuse of Aboriginal artists. It stated that as many as 60% of commercial galleries in Melbourne and Sydney dealt wholly or partially in art produced in unethical circumstances.
Sunday 17 August 2008
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David Roberston is the music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He's renowned for his ability to grab his audience's attention. His forthcoming concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is a program that features the music of French composers Messiaen and Debussy, to be played against projections of paintings by Monet; his Water Lilies, for example.
'Villainelle' is a word with multiple meanings. First it's the name of an ensemble of musicians—instrumentalists and vocalists—who are described as a chamber-pop group. It's also the name of the show being performed by a group called the Villainelles. The show is a song-cycle of works by contemporary Australian poets.
One of the shows at the Darwin Festival is something called His and Hers. It's a one-night only event and it's based on a life-drawing class. The creator, and one of the performers, is Karen Gibb, an actor and director with the Tropic Sun Theatre in Townsville.
Charles Reddington was born in Chicago in 1929. He was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago school in the 1950s and it was then that he saw his first Willem de Kooning painting—which was a revelation to the young Charles.
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Pablo Picasso was an art collector as well as an artist and his favourite objects are now on display at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Sunday 10 August 2008
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The last show directed by Nigel Jamieson was 'Honour Bound' about David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay. His latest production, features the Anzac story. His 'Gallipoli' is being performed by the actors' ensemble of the Sydney Theatre Company, along with two dozen acting students from NIDA until August 23rd, at the Sydney Theatre.
Impress your friends at dinner parties with your knowledge of Totalism—thanks to Chris McAuliffe, director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University which, by the way, has on at the moment the exhibition for the inaugural Basil Sellars Art Prize—this is for art that takes sport as its subject.
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Paris may have been where it was at, artistically speaking, a hundred years ago. Now it's Beijing. Alongside China's fast move from communism to consumerism is an amazing boom in Chinese contemporary art—imaginative, energetic art and an enthustiastic global market paying big, big bucks for it.
We're taking public transport for this tour and we're taking it with Gregor Dallas, an English writer who's lived in France for many years.
Sunday 03 August 2008
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As the film festival in Brisbane is about to open, the Brisbane Festival itself, the one that focuses on theatre and music, is coming to a close. Julie Copeland spoke to artistic director Lyndon Terracini about mounting a festival in boomtown BrisVegas.
The UK's Guy Sherwin is a 'film artist' rather than a film-maker. He does film performances using multiple projectors as well as live elements.
When we invited the architect Norman Day to do today's -ISM in Art, we thought he might come up with something like constructivism, or brutalism, or neoclassicism. But what he's chosen is more of a malaise than a movement and it applies not just to architecture but to almost any human endeavour where specialists are involved.
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Distinguished English actor Bruce Myers speaks with Julie Copeland about the play based on a fable within the Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov, and directed by legendary UK director, Peter Brook.
In the first series of Star Portraits, the BBC production hosted by Rolf Harris, there was an Australian artist chosen as one of the painters: Rebecca Driffield.
Over the past month, you'll have heard our series on classic books about art that have influenced the way we see and understand the visual arts—from EH Gombrich's The Story of Art from the 1950s, to The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes's book from 1981.
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Sunday 27 July 2008
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The Flower Hunter was a book written by the painter Ellis Rowan in 1898, but it's also the title of a new biography of her by Christine and Michael Morton-Evans.
From the workers rising up against the borgeoisie and the fascist regime in the beginning of the 20th century came the clarion call that began political activism in the theatre. From the agit prop theatre of the 1930s to Circus Oz and the Melbourne Workers Theatre today, Maude Davey traces the incendiary path of political theatre and asks the question, what to do under the reign of a government you admire?
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Do you think it's sometimes easier to hear the rhythm of a poem when it's read out loud? Could it be that poetry best finds its way into your heart and mind by way of the ear? There's no doubt that performance poets are very popular at writers' festivals, and maybe this is why.
Continuing the feature series on classic art books of the twentieth century - books that have helped shape the way we look at and think about art. Today it's one of the world's most famous art critics - Robert Hughes - and his best-known book,'Shock of the New'.
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