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It was mid-February in Athens and cold and sunny as we sat on the balcony of an apartment sipping cloudy ouzo and eating salty olives. Vallejo Gantner and I did this almost every afternoon to celebrate another day’s end of Athens Burns Bright; Creative Ecology Tour. “Mate, I signed the contract, it’s real, it’s happening,” Gantner said, breathing out a big
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By Daily Review
Last night’s Federal Budget once again showed the LNP ’s adhoc and grudging tolerance of the arts. The organisation representing the major performing arts companies, AMPAG, is one of nine arts sector bodies that has created an infographic showing national participation in the arts and how its economic impact contributes $4.2 billion to Australia’s GDP. According to AMPAG (it represents the 28 major performing arts companies lucky
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Last night’s federal budget documents offered stark insights into our nation’s culture by setting out Australia’s political priorities in financial terms. In the absence of a written policy, how do these political decisions reveal the unwritten values that frame our cultural life? asks arts industry advocate Esther Anatolitis. Surprisingly, identifying those values is much easier than
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The fourth art auction fundraiser for the Australian Prostate Centre (APC) has raised a record $216,000. More than 120 people gathered at Gibson’s Auctions in Melbourne late last month to watch work by 30 sought-after Australians artists go under the hammer for the New Directions 2019 auction. Brisk bidding among collectors ensured that almost 95
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Edmund Capon AM OBE, a beloved figure in the Australian arts community, has died of cancer in his native England. He was 78. Capon is best remembered for his contributions to the Art Gallery of NSW, where he served as director from 1978 to 2011. During his 33-year tenure, the notoriously ebullient Capon ushered in a slew of
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Derived from a single image of a lion devouring a zebra, Moya McKenna’s suite of six paintings is an exploration of struggle and evocations of fierce, troubled states. As any analyst would say, the artist is both lion and zebra. The work drinks deep from the well of art culture. One might point to the
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Deborah Williams is an award-winning actor, writer, theatremaker and executive director of the UK’s Creative Diversity Network. She is in Australia this week to present a keynote speech at the Fair Play Symposium for Diversity Arts Australia in partnership with Creative Victoria. She will be also speaking at Belvoir Theatre, Sydney today from 4 -6pm. My road
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WOMADelaide: Adelaide’s leading music festival opens on March 8 for three days and four nights. Program manager Annette Tripodi talks with Murray Bramwell about this year’s line-up. It is a fact of life for annual festivals that no sooner has one taken its final curtain than next year’s model, not only begins, but is well
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Melbourne artist Paul Boston has produced a new group of pictures of highly refined aesthetic and philosophical concerns. (Upstairs is a sharp lively show by Dale Hickey.) The pictures are clearly the result of long practice and reflection about illusion and flatness — they draw on cubism, but they also recall something of Braque in
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On a bitterly cold New Mexico winter morning Delmas Howe is at his easel, painting cowboys. It is what he was doing yesterday, and what he will be doing tomorrow. His oeuvre includes exquisite floral portraits and respectable civic murals, but he is famous for oil paintings of figures within the south-west American landscape. Almost
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