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The Five Best Albums of 2010 With the crepuscule of the decade approaching, Daily Review will cast its eye back across the years prior. Each month we’ll look at some of the best albums released each year, starting with 2010. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Arcade Fire’s lead singer, songwriter and band leader Win Butler always
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Any doubt that rhinos are rapidly being poached to extinction is dispelled in the first few seconds of Vestige, an extraordinarily intimate and moving documentary that will screen as part the Transitions Film Festival at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova later this month. The opening sequence depicts the night time patrol of armed anti-poaching rangers who look
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The Head On photo festival returns to Sydney to celebrate its 10th anniversary this May. The festival presents curated exhibitions featuring contemporary fine art photography, portraiture and photojournalism. Features of the program include an exhibition of works by internationally celebrated German-Australian fashion photographer Helmut Newton (1920-2004), David Bowie by renowned Japanese artist Masayoshi Sukita, Walkley Award
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The program for this year’s iteration of Parrtjima – A Festival in Light has been unveiled. The festival aims to showcase some of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth though the newest technology, against the backdrop of the MacDonnell Ranges. Creative director Rhoda Roberts returns to curate her third Parrtjima, which this year is themed
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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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The Great Tamer is one of those unique festival works that will be talked about for years to come, writes Humphrey Bower from the Perth Festival. As has often been noted, the Greek experimental theatre director Dimitris Papaioannou began his professional life as a visual artist. As such he belongs to the tradition of theatre
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Nouveau Cirque de Vietnam, Lang Toi; Gideon Obarzanek, One Infinity Lang Toi: My Village is a contemporary circus work about traditional Vietnamese village life created and directed by Vietnamese juggler Tuan Le in collaboration with French-born but Vietnam-raised brothers and co-creators Nguyen Nhat Ly (who is also musical director) and Nguyen Lân Maurice (Artistic Director)
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Bitchy queens and their unruly courts are quite the flavour of the month, aren’t they? There’s big screen Oscars pick The Favourite with Queen Anne and her scheming same-sex suitors. Princess Margaret is proving quite the handful on Netflix’s The Crown. Meghan (Markle) and Kate (Middleton) are at each other’s throats, if you believe the
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It sure smells like teen spirit on this AstroTurf. Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves takes hormonal adolescent minutiae and sits it right next to Cambodian dictators in a play tracing the trials and triumphs of a girls’ indoor soccer team in self-described middle America. DeLappe’s play premiered off-Broadway and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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Is it too early to say: ‘if you only see one play this year, make it this one?’ Okay. In order of appearance: THE DESIGN: (set, Stephen Curtis; costume, Chloe Greaves) is genius, an act of conjuration that cuts through the usual theatrical delineation of ‘us’ and ‘them’, by the simple expedient of making the
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