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By Helen Razer
Not every human opinion is published in haste or on Facebook. Some of it is set down after days—even months—of thought. “To find the time for thought on arts and culture”. If Daily Review were the sort of place that printed out mission statements, something like this might have been posted in big red typeface on
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Which is better: a harebrained movie that does what it says it’d do on the packet, or an ambitious film that challenges, confounds, frustrates and fascinates viewers? Which is more meaningful: a popcorn flick that never wanted to be anything special, wink-winking audiences in regular acknowledgement of its dumbness, or a film that tries –
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By Daily Review
The 21st Annual Comedy Festival Awards were held in Melbourne last night with the 2018 Barry Award Winner for the Most Outstanding Festival Show going to Sam Campbell (pictured above) for his show The Trough. Campbell has previously won the 2016 Director’s Choice Award and was also the nominee for the 2015 Best Newcomer Award. He also appeared in Anne
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MISSILES A week after the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April 7, the British journalist Robert Fisk walked the streets of this Syrian town in which fundamentalist Jihadists had recently been overpowered by government forces. Fisk interviewed a doctor named Assim Rahaibani who had been in the underground clinic when the “gassing” victims were
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By Raymond Gill
Sam Walsh was announced by Arts Minister Senator Mitch Fifield today as the 13th chair of the Australia Council, taking over from Rupert Myer on July 1. Walsh was Global CEO of Rio Tinto until his retirement in 2016. He has been involved in arts, charity and business organisations in Australia and the UK for many
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By Helen Razer
For many years, great artists have depended for their flourishing upon the generous patronage of…blah, blah, blah, Leonardo. Give it a rest with the Renaissance Defence. Yes. Of course. We know: all art demands material support for its creation and survival. In this way, it is much like every single part of human life. Art
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It will surprise nobody with an appreciation of film and television, and some understanding of the culture in which they are discussed, to say that we live in spoiler-averse times. One might also say “spoiler obsessed” or “spoiler paranoid”. I cannot count (and I doubt you can either) the number of conversations I’ve had with
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The war inside America launches yet another battle in Syria Tucker Carlson is a daily political commentator on Rupert Murdoch’s pro-Trump Fox News. He’s firmly classified as right-wing, and for much of his career (2000-present) he’s worn a bow tie. Yesterday, before Trump ordered missile hits on Syrian government buildings that the US, UK and
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Eric Metaxas, author of Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (Viking) greets me over the phone with “Yiasou Patritha” (health to your homeland). We Greeks carry ‘homeland’ on our shoulders. The New York based writer of Greek German background says, “I loved your An Atheist in Greek Easter,” about an old piece I sent him
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Judith Van Heeren’s new exhibition of natural history paintings, Sea Garden, is at Murray White Room in Melbourne’s CBD until May 5 . Sea Garden was partly inspired by the 1769 painting Sea Plumes, Lithophytes and Shells by Anne Vallayer-Coster in the Louvre. “The painting is just so exquisitely painted and full of mystery and intrigue. At that time I imagined the oceans
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