Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rod Pattenden
- 29 February 2012
3 Comments
Culture in Australia is big business. The role of director of an art gallery involves all the flash of celebrity and the smoky mirrors of politics. Now that the Art Gallery of NSW has announced the appointment of its new director, the pressure is on for Melbourne's NGV.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lucas Smith
- 29 February 2012
7 Comments
The priests are ineluctably compromised: one has capitulated to state pressure to marry; the other has fathered a daughter and drugs himself with alcohol. But the author's achievement, and a mark of his faith, is his ability to 'distinguish ... between the man and the office'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
they say what's with the whole guy on the cross thing, man, that's macabre, that's sick, you people look at a guy dying of torture every day, you hang him in your churches and houses and offices, you carry a dying guy in your pocket, that's just weird, and I try to say he's a dad ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 February 2012
1 Comment
The women begin withholding sex from their husbands in order to pressure them into bringing running water to their remote North African village. This act of self-empowerment brings hardships to both the men and the women of this patriarchal Islamic community.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Matthew Davies
- 21 February 2012
2 Comments
If you try on any more religions, torn, weary and grey like many a tweed jacket from St Vinnie's ... they're never your size.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 17 February 2012
11 Comments
The dismissal of Gough Whitlam by then Governor-General Sir John Kerr in 1975 has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. It seems pallid in comparison with what is now happening here in Greece.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 February 2012
1 Comment
The 'quarter life crisis' is perhaps a Gen Y phenomenon where, despite a dedication to 'experience' and 'connection', one feels life is hollow. The greatest weakness of Any Questions For Ben? is that it offers pat answers to existential questions, where perhaps it should offer none.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sasha Shtargot
- 15 February 2012
8 Comments
Walk in one direction and you meet a photograph of a dog humping a naked man. Turn a corner and there is a long row of plaster-cast vaginas. In one place a mummified cat's head. Shock is not new in art, but it loses its transgressive power when pursued for its own sake.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and P. S. Cottier
- 14 February 2012
Try a Cobra Clutch Bulldog; an Elevated Gutbuster; Wheelbarrow Driver; Gorilla Press Slam; a Frankensteiner. There's always the Alley Oop, where you hoist him, (the opponent) on your shoulders. But be aware of the possibility of take-off ... Who will be riding whom?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 February 2012
5 Comments
Brandon's addiction finds several expressions, from excessive pornography use (including on his work computer), to one-night stands, to more deviant behaviours. Shame explores the addict's humanity both frankly and artfully.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 February 2012
6 Comments
If Dickens wished to address the deprivation and discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers today, he would need to turn to the popular media. But even though he was superbly gifted for the genre, his telly series would most likely flop.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
My crumpled iris-rim lip is her lip; the fine spoked wheel beneath my grimacing eye has etched itself deep with years upon her face. The wet red meat of my viscera is made of her, a shy-hood I cannot take off ... Why are you doing this to me?
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